White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India by Sarah Lamb

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

Sarah Lamb

323 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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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. L...

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