Aging and the Indian diaspora : cosmopolitan families in India and abroad / / Sarah Lamb

• Autore: Lamb Sarah <1960->
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3/808991411
• Soggetto topico: Aging - India; Older people - India - Social conditions; East Indians - United States - Social conditions; East Indian diaspora
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: the remaking of aging -- The production of tradition, modernity, and a new middle class -- The rise of old age homes in India -- Becoming an elder-abode member -- Tea and the forest: making a western institution Indian -- Living alone as a way of life -- Moving abroad -- Changing families and the state.
• Sommario/riassunto: The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to extensive overseas migration and the transnational dispersal of families. In this moving and insightful account, Sarah Lamb shows that older persons are innovative agents in the processes of social-cultural change. Lamb's study probes debates and cultural assumptions in both India and the United States regarding how best to age; the proper social-moral relationship among individuals, genders, families, the market, and the state; and ways of finding meaning in the human life course.
• Titolo autorizzato: Aging and the Indian diaspora
• ISBN: 0-253-00360-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811946603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Tracking globalization.