White Saris and Sweet Mangoes

Sarah Lamb is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University.

• List of Illustrations                              List of Tables                                      Preface                                            Note on Translation and Transliteration           Introduction: Perspectives through Age                Culture, Gender, and Multivocality                 The Anthropology of Aging                          The Body in Postmodern and Feminist Anthropology   Living in Mangaldihi                              PART I: PERSONS AND FAMILIESPersonhoods                                       Entering a Net of Maya in Mangaldihi              Open Persons and Substantial Exchanges            Studying Persons Cross-culturally                 2 Family Moral Systems                               Defining Age                                      Long-Term Relations: Reciprocity and Indebtedness Centrality and Peripherality                      Hierarchies: Serving and Blessing                 3 Conflicting Generations: UnreciprocatedHouseflows in a Modern Society                    Contrary Pulls                                    The Degenerate Ways of Modern Society             Three Lives                                       PART II: AGING AND DYING4 White Saris and Sweet Mangoes, Partings and Ties The Problem of Maya                             Loosening Ties, Disassembling Persons           Pilgrims, Beggars, and Old Age Home Dwellers    The Joys and Perils of Remaining "Hot" and Central, Even in a Ripe Old Age                          The Values of Attachment and Renunciation       5 Dealing with Mortality                           "How Am I Going to Die?"                        Rituals of Death: Making and Remaking Persons and Families                                    Cutting Maya, the Separating of TiesExtending Continuities                          PART III: GENDERED TRANSFORMATIONS6 Transformations of Gender and GenderedTransformations                                 Gendered Bodies and Everyday Practices          Competing Perspectives: Everyday Forms of Resistance                                   The Changes of Age                              Women, Maya, and Aging                          7 A Widow's Bonds                                  Becoming a Widow                                Sexuality and Slander, Devotion and Destruction Unseverable Bonds                               Afterword                                          Notes                                            Glossary                                         References                                       Index