No Aging in India Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

Name: No Aging in India Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
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ISBN: 9780520224629

ISBN-10: 0520224620

ISBN-13: 9780520224629

Edition: 1998

Authors: Lawrence Cohen

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From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness,No Aging in Indiacaptures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detailed investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world. This compelling exploration of senility--encompassing not only the aging body but also larger cultural anxieties--combines insights from medical anthropology, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies. Bridging literary genres as well…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/11/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English