No Aging in India

Author: Lawrence CohenPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 1999Language: EnglishPages: 367ISBN/UPC (if available): 019 566159 1 DescriptionAwarded the Victor Turner prize by the American Anthropological Association in 1998, this book explores a relatively uncharted territory in the study of modern India.In an engagingly written account that feely draws on post-modern social theory and the lived experiences of the fieldworker, Cohen presents a close analysis of the lives of old people in Varanasi, and the ways in which they are viewed.This book will be of interest not only to those interested in the little-studied problems of the old, but also to scholars interested in how ethnographic studies are undertaken, and how social theory brings to bear on the conduct of field work.EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWSNo book in medical anthropology matches No aging in India in its extraordinary richness of ethnographic detail. A feast of stories, situations, lives and theory-it contains such a thickness of