Lawrence Cohen Books
Handbook Of Gender
By Tanika Sarkar, Ilina Sen, Patricia Uberoi, Bina Agarwal, Kalpana Kannabirān, Raka Ray, Radha Kumar, Mary John, NIVEDITA MENON, Saba Mahmood, Mrinalini Sinha, Shohini Ghosh, Sumi Krishna, Lawrence Cohen, Flavia Agnes, Janaki Nair, Uma Chakravarti, Kalpana Ram, Amrita Chachhi
This Handbook brings together works that represent the best of feminist scholarship on India in multiple fields ranging from historical to contemporary India. The contributions from eminent femin...
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No Aging In India: Alzheimer'S, The Bad Family, And Other Modern Things
By Cohen, Lawrence, Lawrence J. Cohen, Lawrence Cohen
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...
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No Aging In India: Alzheimer'S, The Bad Family, And Other Modern Things
By Lawrence J. Cohen, Lawrence Cohen
"Beautifully written, erudite, a perfect balance between theory and ethnography. The narratives are wonderful."—E. Valentine Daniel, author of Charred Lullabies"No book in medical anthropology...
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Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss, And The Anthropology Of Senility
By Lawrence Cohen, Annette Leibing, Annette Leibing And Lawrence Cohen
Cultural responses to most illnesses differ; dementia is no exception. These responses, together with a society’s attitudes toward its elderly population, affect the frequency of dementia-related d...
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