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No Aging in India - Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things (Paperback, New edition)
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No Aging in India - Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things (Paperback, New edition)
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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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