White Saris and Sweet Mangoes Aging, Gender, and Body in North India

Name: White Saris and Sweet Mangoes Aging, Gender, and Body in North India
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ISBN: 9780520220010

ISBN-10: 0520220013

ISBN-13: 9780520220010

Edition: 2000

Authors: Sarah Lamb

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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…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/22/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 7.52" wide x 8.94" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preface


Note on Translation and Transliteration


Introduction: Perspectives through Age



Personhoods



Family Moral Systems



Conflicting Generations: Unreciprocated Houseflows in a Modern Society



White Saris and Sweet Mangoes, Partings and Ties



Dealing with Mortality



Transformations of Gender and Gendered Transformations



A Widow's Bonds


Afterword


Notes


Glossary


References


Index