TY - BOOK ID - 7617078 TI - White saris and sweet mangoes : aging, gender, and body in North India PY - 2000 SN - 0520220013 0520220005 9786613520425 0520935268 1280094877 1598750046 9780520935266 0585389578 9780585389578 9781598750041 9781280094873 661352042X 9780520220003 9780520220010 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Aged-- India-- Bengal-- Social conditions. KW - Aging. KW - Aging - India - Bengal - Family relations. KW - Bengal. KW - Beri-beri. KW - Family relations. KW - India. KW - Older people. KW - Older people - India - Bengal - Psychological aspects. KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - Social conditions. KW - Gerontology KW - Social Welfare & Social Work KW - Social Sciences KW - #SBIB:39A75 KW - #SBIB:39A10 KW - #SBIB:39A11 KW - Etnografie: Azië KW - Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij KW - Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties KW - Older people KW - Aging KW - Family relationships KW - Aged KW - Aging people KW - Elderly people KW - Old people KW - Older adults KW - Older persons KW - Senior citizens KW - Seniors (Older people) KW - Age KW - Ageing KW - Senescence KW - Physiological effect KW - Age groups KW - Persons KW - Gerontocracy KW - Old age KW - Developmental biology KW - Longevity KW - Age factors in disease KW - Psychological aspects KW - Social conditions KW - aging. KW - american history. KW - bengali. KW - contemporary. KW - cultural history. KW - cultural studies. KW - domestic. KW - ethnographer. KW - ethnography. KW - family life. KW - gender studies. KW - gender. KW - growing old. KW - growing up. KW - human body. KW - india. KW - interpersonal. KW - modern world. KW - modernity. KW - relationships. KW - religion. KW - religious studies. KW - rural village. KW - rural. KW - small town. KW - social history. KW - social life. KW - social studies. KW - south asia. KW - specialists. KW - united states. KW - us history. KW - villagers. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7617078 AB - 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. ER -