ISBN:
9780520935266
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Lamb, Sarah, 1960 - White saris and sweet mangoes
DDC:
305.26095414
Keywords:
Aged-- India-- Bengal-- Social conditions
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Aging
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Aging - India - Bengal - Family relations
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Bengal
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Beri-beri
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Family relations
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India
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Older people
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Older people - India - Bengal - Psychological aspects
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Psychological aspects
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Social aspects
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Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Bengalen
;
Alter
;
Familie
;
Soziale Situation
Abstract:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Introduction: Perspectives through Age; Culture, Gender, and Multivocality; The Anthropology o f Aging; The Body in Postmodern and Feminist Anthropology; Living in Mangaldihi; Part I: Persons And Families; 1 Personhoods; Entering a Net of Maya in Mangaldihi; Open Persons and Substantial Exchanges; Studying Persons Cross-culturally; 2 Family Moral Systems; Defining Age; Long-Term Relations: Reciprocity and Indebtedness; Centrality and Peripheraiity
Abstract:
Hierarchies: Serving artd Blessing3 Conflicting Generations: Unreciprocated Houseflows in a Modern Society; Contrary Pulls; The Degenerate Ways of Modern Society; Tkree Lives; Part II: Aging and Dying; 4 White Saris and Sweet Mangoes, Partings and Ties; The Problem of Maya; Loosening Ties, Disassembling Persons; Pilgrims, Beggars, and Old Age Home Dwellers; The Joys and Perils of Remaining "Hot" and Central, Even in a Ripe Old Age; The Values of Attachment and Renunciation; 5 Dealing with Mortality; "How Am I Going to Die?"; Rituals of Death: Making and Remaking Persons and Families
Abstract:
Cutting Maya, the Separating of TiesExtending Continuities; Part III: Gendered Transformations; 6 Transformations of Gender and Gendered Transformations; Gendered Bodies and Everyday Practices; Competing Perspectives: Everyday Forms of Resistance; The Changes of Age; Women, Maya, and Aging; 7 A Widow's Bonds; Becoming a Widow; Sexuality and Slander, Devotion and Destruction; Unseverable Bonds; Afterword; Notes; Glossary; References; Index
Abstract:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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