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No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things | 
 enlarge | Author: Lawrence Cohen
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 3885879
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0520083962
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.26
EAN: 9780520083967
ASIN: 0520083962
Publication Date: July 30, 1998
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Condition: VG+ cond 1998 Hardcover in like dustjacket ( same ISBN# ) Light wear only; else clean, solid, complete
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Product Description
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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 beautifully written, if thickly argued January 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Cohen, in a wonderfully written ethnography, makes us question the categories of Alzheimer's, aging, and dementia by systematically destabilizing our notions of what it means to get old in both our own and India's culture. A worth-while read for anyone interesting in any of the above. However, be forewarned - the text is dense and takes some time to wade through - and it could be suggested that by making so many arguments in so short a span, the book's main thrust isn't there at all, much like Alzheimer's itself.
Approachable, yet profound January 6, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a medical student beginning research on Alzheimer's disease, this book provided me a deeper understanding of the full ramifications of such a disease on the lives of the patient and family members. The interactions described in this book are really quite complicated, yet the clear writing and organization makes this subject matter approachable.
absolutely first rate March 29, 2002
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
professor cohen may be the most brilliant anthropologist of our time as it pertains to south asia. this book is a sparkling example of a prodigious mind at work. it is both scholarly and playful; rigorous and light-hearted. may be read for both pleasure and for what it can teach us about all manner of things. may be the beat scholarly work i have ever read. first-rate.
1998 Winner of Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing September 28, 1998
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Brilliant ethnographic research fused with engaging narrative that makes for truly enjoyable reading. Cohen dissects the phenomenon of an aging population and their role in culture and society, while explaining the greater implications both for policy and popular opinion, with reflections on US and Western societies.
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