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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Perspectives through Age
  • 1. Personhoods
  • 2. Family Moral Systems
  • 3. Conflicting Generations: Unreciprocated Houseflows in a Modern Society
  • 4. White Saris and Sweet Mangoes, Partings and Ties
  • 5. Dealing with Mortality
  • 6. Transformations of Gender and Gendered Transformations
  • 7. A Widow's Bonds.

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