No aging in India: Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things

Cohen draws extensively on years of fieldwork, especially with families and institutions in the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras). He links the everyday politics of when and how old persons are listened to by their children and others with events and processes around India and around the world - the...

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Main Author: Cohen, Lawrence (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley [u.a.] Univ. of California Press 1998
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Summary:Cohen draws extensively on years of fieldwork, especially with families and institutions in the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras). He links the everyday politics of when and how old persons are listened to by their children and others with events and processes around India and around the world - the generational dynamics of Indian cinema, advertising, and popular medicine; the formation of international gerontology and its relation to Indian state welfare and social science; and the intensified marketing of senility drugs globally. Cohen's analysis leads us to consider the centrality of the old body in the emergence of colonized elites and in the cultural politics of colonial and postcolonial identity across class. No Aging in India takes us from the study of aging to the idea of age itself.
Item Description:first paperback printing 1999
Physical Description:XXV, 367 S. Ill.
ISBN:0520083962
9780520224629
0520224620

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