White Saris and Sweet Mangoes
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aging
american history
Author_Sarah Lamb
bengali
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contemporary
cultural history
cultural studies
domestic
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ethnographer
ethnography
family life
gender
gender studies
growing old
growing up
human body
india
interpersonal
modern world
modernity
relationships
religion
religious studies
rural
rural village
small town
social history
social life
social studies
south asia
specialists
united states
us history
villagers
Product details
- ISBN 9780520220010
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jun 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
Sarah Lamb is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University.
