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No Aging in India: Alzheimer´s, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
Lawrence Cohen
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Description for No Aging in India: Alzheimer´s, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
Paperback. Links an investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world. Num Pages: 400 pages, 5 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFC; JFSP31; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 604.
From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detailed investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world. This compelling exploration of senility - encompassing not only the aging body but also larger cultural anxieties - combines insights from medical anthropology, ... Read more
From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detailed investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world. This compelling exploration of senility - encompassing not only the aging body but also larger cultural anxieties - combines insights from medical anthropology, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
604g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520224629
SKU
V9780520224629
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About Lawrence Cohen
Lawrence Cohen is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Critical Studies of Medicine, Science, and the Body at the University of California, Berkeley.
Reviews for No Aging in India: Alzheimer´s, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
No Aging in India deserves to be a classic in the anthropological literature on aging.
John Van Willigen, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
John Van Willigen, Medical Anthropology Quarterly