Aging and the Indian Diaspora - Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Lamb is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India and co-editor of Everyday Life in South Asia (IUP, 2002). Klappentext Lamb's study probes debates and cultural assumptions in both India and the United States regarding how best to age; the proper social-moral relationship among individuals, genders, families, the market, and the state; and ways of finding meaning in the human life course. Zusammenfassung Aging in a transnational era Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration 1. Introduction: The Remaking of Aging 2. The Production of Tradition, Modernity, and a New Middle Class 3. The Rise of Old Age Homes in India 4. Becoming an Elder-Abode Member 5. Tea and the Forest: Making a Western Institution Indian 6. Living Alone as a Way of Life 7. Moving Abroad 8. Changing Families and the State Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Lamb, Sarah E Lamb, Sarah E. Lamb
• Assisted by: Sarah E. Lamb (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.2009
• EAN: 9780253221001
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22100-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Tracking Globalization; Tracking Globalization
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology