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White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes Aging Gender and Body in North India
Author: Sarah Lamb
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520220010
ISBN-10: 0520220013
Publication Date: 8/14/2000
Pages: 325
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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