White saris and sweet mangoes : aging, gender, and body in North India /

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This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lamb, Sarah, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Colección:Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access)
Temas:
Older people > India > Bengal > Social conditions.
Aging > Family relationships > India > Bengal.
Older people > India > Bengal > Psychological aspects.
Personnes âgées > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Conditions sociales.
Vieillissement > Relations familiales > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
Personnes âgées > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Aspect psychologique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Aging.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Older people > Social conditions
Gesellschaft
Alter
Bejaarden.
Sociale relaties.
Familierelaties.
Psychologische aspecten.
Femmes > Inde > Conditions sociales.
Rôle selon le sexe > Inde.
Vieillissement > Aspect social > Inde.
Sociologie du corps > Inde.
India > Bengal
Bengalen
Indien
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social life, but also to contribute to contemporary theories of gender, the body, and culture, which have been hampered, the book argues, by a static focus on youth. Lamb's own experiences in the village are an integral part of her book and ably convey the cultural particularities of rural Bengali life and Bengali notions of modernity. In exploring ideals of family life and the intricate interrelationships between and within generations, she enables us to understand how people in the village construct, and deconstruct, their lives. At the same time her study extends beyond India to contemporary attitudes about aging in the United States. This accessible and engaging book is about deeply human issues and will appeal not only to specialists in South Asian culture, but to anyone interested in families, aging, gender, religion, and the body.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 306 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index.
ISBN:9780520935266
0520935268
0585389578
9780585389578
1598750046
9781598750041
1280094877
9781280094873
9786613520425
661352042X

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