{"product_id":"no-aging-in-india-9780520224629","title":"No Aging in India","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinks 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a powerful, provocative book, rich with meaning. Lawrence Cohen weaves together challenging, revealing theory with vivid ethnographic images—of white-clad stooped women mingling with hungry dogs on the narrow lanes of Varanasi (Benaras); of a 'hot-minded' mother-in-law yelling out her window for someone to come save her, thus inculpating a 'Bad Family' and uncaring daughter-in- law; of an eager anthropologist trying to find senile old people with whom to do research. By the end the reader gains a new awareness of an important dimension of social and political life in India, as well as of what medical anthropology, gerontology, and ethnographic writing can be.\" * Anthropological Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"In studying 'what is not there' in India—aging as a disease—Cohen provides a richly documented view of what is there, especially of how people talk about things like Westernization and nuclear families as 'bad things.' \u003ci\u003eNo Aging in India\u003c\/i\u003e packs in many details but also offers valuable comparative generalizations (with caution) that defy pure Geertzian guidelines about the sanctity of the local. . . . Monitoring the impacts of globalization and localization of Western views of aging, including gerontology, is another key area of future research prompted by this important book.\" * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNo Aging in India \u003c\/i\u003echallenge[s] the ways in which we think about aging and senility, kinship and its undoing, medicine and the nation, language and the possibilities of ethnographic writing, and what it means to do the anthropology of South Asia. . . . [It] has helped to forge new openings and connections . . . in broader fields like anthropology, science and technology studies, South Asian Studies and critical gerontology.\"  * Somatosphere *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS \u003cbr\u003e THE GROUND OF THE ARGUMENT \u003cbr\u003e ACKNOWLEDGMENTS \u003cbr\u003e NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION, TRANSLATION, AND TRANSLITERATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION \u003cbr\u003e The Mad Old Woman of the Millennium \u003cbr\u003e The Age of Alzheimer's \u003cbr\u003e The View from the River \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dulari \u003cbr\u003e 1. ORIENTATIONS \u003cbr\u003e The ,Zagreb Tamasha \u003cbr\u003e Whats Wrong with This Picture? \u003cbr\u003e The Better Brain \u003cbr\u003e Tropical Softening \u003cbr\u003e Embodying Probate \u003cbr\u003e A Medical Explanation \u003cbr\u003e The Senile Body \u003cbr\u003e An Anthropological Picaresque \u003cbr\u003e Of Varanasi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e World Wide Web \u003cbr\u003e 2. ALZHEIMER'S HELL\u003cbr\u003e No Aging in America! Leading Scientists Reveal \u003cbr\u003e Alzheimer's Subjectivity, and the the Old West \u003cbr\u003e The Geriatric Paradox \u003cbr\u003e Oublier Postmodern Aging \u003cbr\u003e A Witch's Curse \u003cbr\u003e The Senile Climacteric \u003cbr\u003e Alzheimer's Family \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nuns and Doctors \u003cbr\u003e 3. KNOWLEDGE, PRACTICE, AND THE BAD FAMILY \u003cbr\u003e On Gerontological Objects \u003cbr\u003e The 'Aging in India\" Series \u003cbr\u003e Internationalist Science \u003cbr\u003e The \"Golden Isles\" \u003cbr\u003e Gerontology as Cultural Critique \u003cbr\u003e BP Checks:The Volunteer Agency \u003cbr\u003e Free Radical Exchange:The Geriatric Clinic \u003cbr\u003e Into the Woods:The Retirement Ashram \u003cbr\u003e Mothers versus Aunties: The Old Age Home \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Aitasaa Pralapa \u003cbr\u003e MEMORY BANKS \u003cbr\u003e The Embodiment of Anxiety \u003cbr\u003e The Promise of Rasayana \u003cbr\u003e The Marketing of Memory \u003cbr\u003e Memory and Capital \u003cbr\u003e Forgetting as a Path to Truth \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meri Lata Mahan \u003cbr\u003e THE ANGER OF THE RISHIS\u003cbr\u003e Hot Brains \u003cbr\u003e Sixtyishness and Seventy-twoness \u003cbr\u003e Oedipus in India \u003cbr\u003e Counting the Days and Hours\u003cbr\u003e Old Women at the Polls \u003cbr\u003e The Phenomenology of the Voice \u003cbr\u003e The Familial Body \u003cbr\u003e The Dying Space \u003cbr\u003e Taking Voices Seriously \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Philosophers Mother \u003cbr\u003e 6. THE MALADJUSTMENT OF THE BOURGEOISIE \u003cbr\u003e Civility and Contest \u003cbr\u003e Balance and Adjustment \u003cbr\u003e Senility and Madness \u003cbr\u003e Loneliness and Menopause \u003cbr\u003e Balance and Cartesian Possibility \u003cbr\u003e The Dementia Clinic \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Way to the Indies, to the Fountain of Jouth \u003cbr\u003e 7. CHAPATI BODIES \u003cbr\u003e Nagwa by Its Residents \u003cbr\u003e Weakness as Structure \u003cbr\u003e Muslims and Other Saints \u003cbr\u003e Generation and Weakness Revisited \u003cbr\u003e Jhandu and the Sound of Dying\u003cbr\u003e The Position of Repose \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Child Is Being Lifted \u003cbr\u003e 8. DOG LADIES AND THE BERIYA BABA \u003cbr\u003e Dogs and Old Women \u003cbr\u003e Old Women and Madwomen \u003cbr\u003e Madwomen and Witches \u003cbr\u003e Dogs and Old Men \u003cbr\u003e Old Men and Babas \u003cbr\u003e Babas and the State \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Age of the Anthropologist \u003cbr\u003e 9. THE BODY IN TIME \u003cbr\u003e My Grandmother's Letters\u003cbr\u003e No One Here Cares about Alzheimer's \u003cbr\u003e Lost at the Fair \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Last Few Trips up the River \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e NOTES \u003cbr\u003e GLOSSARY \u003cbr\u003e REFERENCES \u003cbr\u003e INDEX ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402812006743,"sku":"9780520224629","price":25.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/no-aging-in-india-9780520224629","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}