Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things Cohen, Lawrence 1961- creator text bibliography cau Berkeley University of California Press c1998 1998 monographic eng

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xxv, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Cohen draws extensively on years of fieldwork, especially with families and institutions in the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras). He links the everyday politics of when and how old persons are listened to by their children and others with events and processes around India and around the world - the generational dynamics of Indian cinema, advertising, and popular medicine; the formation of international gerontology and its relation to Indian state welfare and social science; and the intensified marketing of senility drugs globally. Cohen's analysis leads us to consider the centrality of the old body in the emergence of colonized elites and in the cultural politics of colonial and postcolonial identity across class. No Aging in India takes us from the study of aging to the idea of age itself. 1. Orientations -- 2. Alzheimer's Hell -- 3. Knowledge, Practice, and the Bad Family -- 4. Memory Banks -- 5. The Anger of the Rishis -- 6. The Maladjustment of the Bourgeoisie -- 7. Chapati Bodies -- 8. Dog Ladies and the Beriya Baba -- 9. The Body in Time. Lawrence Cohen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-351) and index. A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program. a-ii--- Aging Anthropological aspects Ethnology India Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) Aging Anthropological aspects India Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) Senile dementia India Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) Alzheimer's disease India Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) Aging Anthropology, Cultural Alzheimer Disease Dementia Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) Social life and customs India GN485 .C64 1998 305.26 0520083962 (alk. paper) 9780520083967 (alk. paper) 9780520224629 0520224620 97038659 DLC 970930 20230807154358.0 37731666 eng