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- catalog 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.".
- catalog contributor b11626389.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-294) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Perspectives through Age -- 1. Personhoods -- 2. Family Moral Systems -- 3. Conflicting Generations: Unreciprocated Houseflows in a Modern Society -- 4. White Saris and Sweet Mangoes, Partings and Ties -- 5. Dealing with Mortality -- 6. Transformations of Gender and Gendered Transformations -- 7. A Widow's Bonds.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 306 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "White saris and sweet mangoes.".
- catalog identifier "0520220005 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0520220013 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "White saris and sweet mangoes.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog relation "White saris and sweet mangoes.".
- catalog spatial "India Bengal".
- catalog spatial "India Bengal.".
- catalog subject "305.26/0954/14 21".
- catalog subject "Aging Family relationships India Bengal.".
- catalog subject "Aging India Bengal Family relations.".
- catalog subject "HQ1064.I4 L36 2000".
- catalog subject "Older people India Bengal Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Older people India Bengal Social conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Perspectives through Age -- 1. Personhoods -- 2. Family Moral Systems -- 3. Conflicting Generations: Unreciprocated Houseflows in a Modern Society -- 4. White Saris and Sweet Mangoes, Partings and Ties -- 5. Dealing with Mortality -- 6. Transformations of Gender and Gendered Transformations -- 7. A Widow's Bonds.".
- catalog title "White saris and sweet mangoes : aging, gender, and body in North India / Sarah Lamb.".
- catalog type "text".