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by Lawrence Cohen

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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, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies. Bridging literary genres as well as geographic spaces, Cohen responds to what he sees as the impoverishment of both North American and Indian gerontologies--the one mired in ambivalence toward demented old bodies, the other insistent on a dubious morality tale of modern families breaking up and abandoning their elderly. He shifts our attention irresistibly toward how old age comes to matter in the constitution of societies and their narratives of identity and history.

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Tamasha in Hindi is a commotion, a performance song and dance, tragedy: burlesque, and romance strung together with lots of noise as in its heir, the modern Hindi film.

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"Beautifully written, erudite, a perfect balance between theory and ethnography. The narratives are wonderful."--E. Valentine Daniel, author of Charred Lullabies

"No book in medical anthropology matches No Aging in India in its extraordinary richness of ethnographic detail. A feast of stories, lives, and theory--it contains such a thickness of social experience that the reader feels he or she has become a part of India's local worlds. Lawrence Cohen has written one of the finest ethnographic monographs I have read. A triumph of field research and writing, this book will, I feel sure, set the standard for the next wave of ethnographies in medical anthropology."--Arthur Kleinman, author of Writing at the Margin

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  • Title No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
  • Author Lawrence Cohen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2000-01-11
  • Features Glossary, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520224629 / 0520224620
  • Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.03 x 6.05 x 1.04 in (22.94 x 15.37 x 2.64 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Generational Orientation: Elderly/Aged
  • Category Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97038659
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.26

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Lawrence Cohen is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Critical Studies of Medicine, Science, and the Body at the University of California, Berkeley.

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