Pocket • 2000

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
SKU: 9780520220010
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ISBN: 9780520220010

Av 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 ...Vis mer

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9780520220010

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White saris and sweet mangoes. Aging, gender, and body in north India

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