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

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3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
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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 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.
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    0520220013
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    978-0520220010
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    First Edition
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    University of California Press
  5. Publication date
    August 14, 2000
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    5.98 x 0.82 x 8.9 inches
  8. Print length
    325 pages
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"This richly detailed ethnography describes ideas about aging, gender, and body in a Bengali village in North India."-"Choice

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Sarah Lamb is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; First Edition (August 14, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 325 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520220013
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520220010
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.82 x 8.9 inches
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    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

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Sarah Lamb is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University, USA. Her research focuses on aging, gender, families and understandings of personhood in daily life in West Bengal, India and the United States. She received her B.A. in Religious Studies from Brown University (1982) and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (1993). Her books include: White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India; Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad; and (with Diane Mines) Everyday Life in South Asia. Her current research critically examines US notions of “successful” aging. Sarah Lamb lives in Needham, Massachusetts with her spouse, two daughters and a dog, and for recreation enjoys running, hiking, cross-country skiing, travel, gardening, and music.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Moving and Well Researched Ethnography
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2008
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I am using this for a class on ethnography and I really only skimmed it before ordering it for the course. I am very impressed by the depth and breadth of the author's knowledge and the resonance it has with our own issues concerning aging in North America and beyond. As an anthropologist who has worked in India I also found it to be a vivid trip back to a much-loved land.
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Useless book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars good buy
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2009
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I hated the book itself but the purchase was legitimate, relatively fast, and in good condition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars lasting memory
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2008
It has been several years since I read this book by Sarah Lamb. The characters are still alive in my memory, and I would like Ms Lamb to return to India to update the lives she decribed. She is an Anthropoligist wrriting with warmth, who creates a lasting impression.
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