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Ways of Aging
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Ways of Aging

Sarah Lamb
A Companion to the Anthropology of India, pp.500-516
Wiley‐Blackwell
02/04/2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444390599.ch27

Abstract

aging and modernity, linked ‐ Indians' minds, beliefs and practices surrounding old age aging and the modern forest, old age homes in India ‐ old age homes across India's urban centers aging in the joint family, intergenerational reciprocity ‐ visions of social change and modernity in India elder residences in India, not only to family ‐ traditional place of spiritual retreat in forest, or van India and North America, the old age home ‐ quintessential space of absence of family India, witnessing a proliferation of old age homes ‐ new phenomenon in the nation joint family system, old age itself ‐ family matter, elders living with adult children Lawrence Cohen's No Aging in India ‐ Alzheimer's, the Bad Family and Other Modern Things ‐ “four horsemen of contemporary apocalypse” using aging as a lens, reflecting ‐ profound processes of social change in India today ways of aging ‐ everyday and media discourses within India, living within a multigenerational family

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