L Cohen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2746 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | L Cohen |
| NOMBRES | L |
| APELLIDO | Cohen |
| FIRMA | COHEN L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0112-8642 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 479 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Enemies
Against a phenomenological orientation to ageing as path or course, a contrastive frame is offered around a figure termed the enemy. Four distinctive ethnographic fragments are utilized: (1) a Polish-Jewish migrant to Canada in her late eighties who listens continually to the radio and worries over the malign forces in the world that the radio broadcasts; (2) a Dalit woman in her seventies in a north Indian slum heard by neighbours to be frequent…
Retirement project
This piece honors the work of Katie Stewart through the form of the "hundred." Invoking Stewart's figure of attunement in the context of park cruising, I write about the relation of stories to forms of life from which one may be estranged in time. Against anthropology's magic-in which story emerges as something like a perfectible form-a fragment is offered, some context for words exchanged in a park, opening perhaps to another mode of narration
Transformative spiritualities
The Churches of the World Council of Churches have been on a "Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace"- together with people of goodwill—since they met for their assembly in Busan in 2013. Building peace with justice has been at the heart of the ecumenical movement since its beginnings. It reflects the call of the churches in a wounded world caused by systemic injustice - racism, sexism, xenophobia, economic exploitation, and violence among humans and ag…
The Duplicate Malady
Several anthropological essays in this issue of South Asia, each engaging the figure of hysteria, are reviewed through the relation of phenomena typified as hysterical to accusations of these being counterfeit or ‘duplicate’. A conceptual vocabulary to analyse the essays draws from the author’s work on India’s Aadhaar biometric identification platform as a means to transform a nation into a database and govern through an array of technical practi…
Place, People, and Power in City Building in Postwar America
When urban studies scholars examine issues such as the public versus private in cities, boundary making and breaking, and how democratic citizenship is reinforced or undermined, they tend to avoid the agency of individuals. Instead, they attribute these characteristics to urban environments in general, as circumscribed by place and time. This essay argues for the importance of investigating agency in city building and city living and does so thro…
The Kothi Wars
Short-term effect of a hamstring stretching program in hamstring extensibility and sagittal spinal curvatures in high school students
Hamstring shortness and postural deformities are frequent in adolescents. For this reason, the purpose of this study was to analyse the influence of a shortterm stretching program in hamstring extensibility and sagittal spinal curvatures in high school students. Sixty-two male high school students aged 14-17 years old performed a 70 seconds hamstring stretching program (3 exercises) twice a week for five weeks during their physical education clas…
The Culling
Old age has been central to public health rationalities and contestations of the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic. This article thinks through what age is and does in pandemic times by juxtaposing four domains of ethical publicity in which age comes to matter: (1) mass fatality of old persons under conditions of variable unpreparedness; (2) circulation of social-Darwinist argument for herd immunity through culling of the weak; (3) everyday challeng…
India as database
If sociology is ‘missing’ from the Aadhaar debate, to take Reetika Khera’s provocation seriously, the absence may reflect a disciplinary reluctance to accede to normative terms of contest in which the biometric identity platform must be rendered as boon or blight. Though a refusal of such normative formulations may be necessary, it carries its own ethical limit. Beyond the question of normative assessment, Aadhaar raises multiple additional quest…
The ‘Social’ De-Duplicated
India's programme for biometric registration, Aadhaar, is organised through engineering concept work that depends upon three distinctive claims for the 'social' as human condition: (1) the social as 'socialism', the failed premise of Nehruvian decolonisation understood to have placed the poor into a condition of bare life; (2) the social-yet-to-come as the effect of a proper distribution of the good termed 'service', to bring the poor into a self…
Duplicate
Creativity and exhaustion
Fidelity Decision Making in Social and Behavioral Research
This article advances the discussion of treatment fidelity in social and behavioral intervention research by analyzing fidelity in an intervention study conducted within participating long-term care settings of the Collaborative Studies of Long-Term Care. The authors used the Behavior Change Consortium's (BCC) best practices for enhancing treatment fidelity recommendations in the areas of study design, provider training, treatment delivery, treat…
Given over to demand
This commentary discusses a set of essays, arguing that each examines a demand for the extraction or ‘excorporation’ of organic form to supplement a lack elsewhere, whether the apperception of that lack be located in the clinic, in national or regional politics, or in big data as databases come to promise the ground of inclusion and future life. Reading through and across the essays, it proposes a conceptual vocabulary rooted in a figure of ‘comm…
Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects
Migrant Supplementarity
Social analysis of transplant organ demand often focuses on either small-scale (familial) tyrannies of the gift or large-scale (global) markets. Media accounts of the scandalous in transplant medicine stress the latter, a homogeneous model of flows of biovalue down gradients of economic and social capital. This article examines particular globalizations of tissue demand organized as much around claims of social similarity as gradients of social d…
Accusations of Illiteracy and the Medicine of the Organ
The bodily organ features prominently in the public representation of medical clinics in India. Interviews with clinic directors offer a rationale: the clinic's public is assumed to be illiterate. Pedagogies of the body as an order of parts appear frequently across a range of media: these often bear a formal similarity to pedagogies of language in a post-colonial context. This similarity is here framed as a shared metonymic order, a framing used …
Love and the Little Line
Counter-Institutionalism in Anglo-Jewry
This study researches the history of an institution making extensive use of oral history based on the recollection of scholars' (i.e. students') accounts from the Jewish orphanage, Norwood. Their version reveals a culture of counter—institutionalism that was exceptionally expressed in the Norwood Rebellion. The rebellion was one act of defiance. As an ongoing protest against the regimentation, it was organised as opposition to the discipline and …
Lucknow Noir
Science, politics, and dancing boys
Politics of Care
Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception
This chapter contains section titled: Empire and Exception Life at a Distance Loving Exception Bioavailability Operability The Medicalization of Politics Notes
Song for Pushkin
An imagined Russia–Soviet or otherwise–along with an imagined America have at times over the past century served as vehicles of hope in India as elsewhere. The American writer Jhumpa Lahiri tells the story of Gogol, the resentful son of Bengali migrants to Boston named by a father whose copy of the Russian’s works had once saved him from a train wreck. The story I recount here centers not on an Indian-origin Gogol but on an ‘America-returned’ Pus…
"Escaping Steigerwald's "Plastic Cages
Journal Article Escaping Steigerwald's “Plastic Cages”: Consumers as Subjects and Objects in Modern Capitalism Get access Lizabeth Cohen Lizabeth Cohen Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the Department of History at Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93, Issue 2, September 2006, Pages 409–413, https://doi.org/10.2307/4486237 Published: …
No Aging in IndiaAlzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
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 stat…
The Other Kidney
This article links ethnographic exploration of commodified renal transactions in India to their articulation in Hindi film as practices re-animating kinship in the face of the death or diminishment of the father. To think through the work such organ stories do, I contrast the `transplant film' with the `transfusion film'. I argue transfusion narratives offer a liberal developmentalist recoding of social relations under the sign of a Nehruvian pro…
Old Age
Despite numerous review articles and programmatic essays surveying the social and cultural of old age (2, 13, 14,41,47,53,55,79,82, 99, 102, 103), a theme in many of them is the relative paucity of anthropologi cal attention to the topic. In 1967 Clark made the classic observation that if one is to judge from typical anthropological accounts, the span of years be tween the achievement of adult status and one's funerary rites is either an ethnogra…
Toward an Anthropology of Senility
Dementia has seldom been subject to cross-cultural and cross-class analyses that localize the obviousness and meaningfulness of its pathology. Fieldwork with old persons and their families in four neighborhoods of Banaras, India, stratified by class, is presented to suggest the need for an anthropology of senility. The centrality of "hot brain"-of anger rather than memory as a fundamental index of senile difference-is explored through its differe…
Holi in Banaras and the Mahaland of Modernity
Research Article| October 01 1995 Holi in Banaras and the Mahaland of Modernity Lawrence Cohen Lawrence Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1995) 2 (4): 399-424. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-4-399 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lawrence Cohen; Holi in Banaras and the Mahaland of Modernity. GLQ 1 October 1995; 2 (4): 399-424. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-4…
No Aging in India
No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Family, and Other Modern Things. LAWRENCE COHEN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998; xxv + 367 pp. This a powerful, provocative book, rich with meaning. Lawrence Cohen weaves together challenging, revealing theory with vivid ethnographic images - of white-clad stooped women mingling with hungry dogs on the narrow lanes of Varanasi (Benaras); of a hot-minded mother-in-law yelling out her window for s…
The Culling
Old age has been central to public health rationalities and contestations of the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic. This article thinks through what age is and does in pandemic times by juxtaposing four domains of ethical publicity in which age comes to matter: (1) mass fatality of old persons under conditions of variable unpreparedness; (2) circulation of social-Darwinist argument for herd immunity through culling of the weak; (3) everyday challeng…
Song for Pushkin
An imagined Russia–Soviet or otherwise–along with an imagined America have at times over the past century served as vehicles of hope in India as elsewhere. The American writer Jhumpa Lahiri tells the story of Gogol, the resentful son of Bengali migrants to Boston named by a father whose copy of the Russian’s works had once saved him from a train wreck. The story I recount here centers not on an Indian-origin Gogol but on an ‘America-returned’ Pus…
Science, politics, and dancing boys
The ‘Social’ De-Duplicated
India's programme for biometric registration, Aadhaar, is organised through engineering concept work that depends upon three distinctive claims for the 'social' as human condition: (1) the social as 'socialism', the failed premise of Nehruvian decolonisation understood to have placed the poor into a condition of bare life; (2) the social-yet-to-come as the effect of a proper distribution of the good termed 'service', to bring the poor into a self…
Duplicate
Migrant Supplementarity
Social analysis of transplant organ demand often focuses on either small-scale (familial) tyrannies of the gift or large-scale (global) markets. Media accounts of the scandalous in transplant medicine stress the latter, a homogeneous model of flows of biovalue down gradients of economic and social capital. This article examines particular globalizations of tissue demand organized as much around claims of social similarity as gradients of social d…
Semen, Irony, and the Atom Bomb
Accusations of Illiteracy and the Medicine of the Organ
The bodily organ features prominently in the public representation of medical clinics in India. Interviews with clinic directors offer a rationale: the clinic's public is assumed to be illiterate. Pedagogies of the body as an order of parts appear frequently across a range of media: these often bear a formal similarity to pedagogies of language in a post-colonial context. This similarity is here framed as a shared metonymic order, a framing used …
Given over to demand
This commentary discusses a set of essays, arguing that each examines a demand for the extraction or ‘excorporation’ of organic form to supplement a lack elsewhere, whether the apperception of that lack be located in the clinic, in national or regional politics, or in big data as databases come to promise the ground of inclusion and future life. Reading through and across the essays, it proposes a conceptual vocabulary rooted in a figure of ‘comm…
Politics of Care
Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City
Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self. STEVEN M. PARISH. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xii + 342 pp., maps, photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index
Fidelity Decision Making in Social and Behavioral Research
This article advances the discussion of treatment fidelity in social and behavioral intervention research by analyzing fidelity in an intervention study conducted within participating long-term care settings of the Collaborative Studies of Long-Term Care. The authors used the Behavior Change Consortium's (BCC) best practices for enhancing treatment fidelity recommendations in the areas of study design, provider training, treatment delivery, treat…
Love and the Little Line
Collaboration and Competition in Two Colonization Projects
The development of efficient and honest bureaucracies has long been a central concern in studies of organizations, but there is little theory to explain the emergence of corruption in bureaucracies. Analyses of this type of corruption in underdeveloped countries have frequently attributed causation to particular political, cultural, or social-structural factors, without taking into account different degrees of corruption in highly different frame…
India as database
If sociology is ‘missing’ from the Aadhaar debate, to take Reetika Khera’s provocation seriously, the absence may reflect a disciplinary reluctance to accede to normative terms of contest in which the biometric identity platform must be rendered as boon or blight. Though a refusal of such normative formulations may be necessary, it carries its own ethical limit. Beyond the question of normative assessment, Aadhaar raises multiple additional quest…
Whodunit?--Violence and the Myth of Fingerprints
Configurations - Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 1994
Collaboration and Competition in Two Colonization Projects
The development of efficient and honest bureaucracies has long been a central concern in studies of organizations, but there is little theory to explain the emergence of corruption in bureaucracies. Analyses of this type of corruption in underdeveloped countries have frequently attributed causation to particular political, cultural, or social-structural factors, without taking into account different degrees of corruption in highly different frame…
Ethics and Methods of Researching Official Corruption
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Stephen Bunker, Lawrence Cohen; Ethics and Methods of Researching Official Corruption: Reply to Rabben. Human Organization 1 March 1984; 43 (1): 81–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.43.1.j607054700311765 Download citation file: Ris (…
Pit and fissure sealant use in private practice
To study the influence of the delegation of sealant procedures to auxiliaries on sealant use, we queried a national sample of general dentists and pedodontists. A large percentage (34-58 per cent) of both groups were unaware or mistaken in their perception of the legality of delegating sealants. Although perception of legality to delegate was associated with increased sealant use, a large percentage (33-59 per cent) of both groups did not delegat…
The State and the Unions
The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880–1960. By Christopher L. Tomlins and American Workers, American Unions, 1920–1985. By Robert H. Zieger Lizabeth Cohen Lizabeth Cohen Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 21, Issue 3, Spring 1988, Pages 547–550, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/21.3.547 Publishe…
Tobacco and Shamanism in South America. Johannes Wilbert
No aging in India
Whodunit?--Violence and the Myth of Fingerprints
Configurations - Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 1994
Old Age
Despite numerous review articles and programmatic essays surveying the social and cultural of old age (2, 13, 14,41,47,53,55,79,82, 99, 102, 103), a theme in many of them is the relative paucity of anthropologi cal attention to the topic. In 1967 Clark made the classic observation that if one is to judge from typical anthropological accounts, the span of years be tween the achievement of adult status and one's funerary rites is either an ethnogra…
Number processing in pure alexia
Introduction Case descriptions Language assessment Processing of arabic numerals General discussion REFERENCESThe relative sparing of arabic numerals, in patients who fail to read words or even letters, is a classical feature of pure alexia originally observed by Dejerine (Comptes Rendus des Seances de la Societé de la Biologie 1892; 4: 61-90).We report a study of number processing abilities in two patients suffering from typical pure alexia.Our …
Number Processing in Pure Alexia
The relative sparing of arabic numerals, in patients who fail to read words or even letters, is a classical feature of pure alexia originally observed by Dejerine (Comptes Rendus des Seances de la Societé de Biologie 1892; 4: 61–90). We report a study of number processing abilities in two patients suffering from typical pure alexia. Our main finding was that number identification performance varied considerably with task demands. Both patients co…
Holi in Banaras and the Mahaland of Modernity
Research Article| October 01 1995 Holi in Banaras and the Mahaland of Modernity Lawrence Cohen Lawrence Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1995) 2 (4): 399-424. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-4-399 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lawrence Cohen; Holi in Banaras and the Mahaland of Modernity. GLQ 1 October 1995; 2 (4): 399-424. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-4…
Toward an Anthropology of Senility
Dementia has seldom been subject to cross-cultural and cross-class analyses that localize the obviousness and meaningfulness of its pathology. Fieldwork with old persons and their families in four neighborhoods of Banaras, India, stratified by class, is presented to suggest the need for an anthropology of senility. The centrality of "hot brain"-of anger rather than memory as a fundamental index of senile difference-is explored through its differe…
Articulating the Elephant Man
Quality of life in HIV-infected women in the south-eastern United States
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative importance of social (social support, material resources, disclosure, and family functioning) and psychological factors (stigma, emotional distress, intrusion, avoidance, and fatalism) as predictors of the quality of life of women infected with HIV. The cross-sectional data were drawn from interviews of a sample of 264 women recruited from 8 HIV/AIDS treatment sites in a south-eastern state. …
Semen, Irony, and the Atom Bomb
No Aging in IndiaAlzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
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 stat…
Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City
Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self. STEVEN M. PARISH. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xii + 342 pp., maps, photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index
Factor structure of the Disability and Impact Profile in patients with multiple sclerosis
No Aging in India
No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Family, and Other Modern Things. LAWRENCE COHEN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998; xxv + 367 pp. This a powerful, provocative book, rich with meaning. Lawrence Cohen weaves together challenging, revealing theory with vivid ethnographic images - of white-clad stooped women mingling with hungry dogs on the narrow lanes of Varanasi (Benaras); of a hot-minded mother-in-law yelling out her window for s…
The Other Kidney
This article links ethnographic exploration of commodified renal transactions in India to their articulation in Hindi film as practices re-animating kinship in the face of the death or diminishment of the father. To think through the work such organ stories do, I contrast the `transplant film' with the `transfusion film'. I argue transfusion narratives offer a liberal developmentalist recoding of social relations under the sign of a Nehruvian pro…
Senility And Irony's Age
This chapter engages both the irony of old age and the old age of irony. Building on an understanding of senility and dementia as reg- isters of voice, it makes three principal assertions: first, that a form of listeningwe might term ironic may allow for less depersonaliza- tion of those we hear to be senile; second, that an ironic relationship to the biologization of everythingavoids a return to nature/culture binaries; and third, that irony for…
Metaphor and Alienation
A. David Napier, The Age of Immunology: Conceiving the Future in an Alienating World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 328 pp. The times, some say, are a'changing. In 1985, I found myself in a hotel room rented by a bunch of medical students from the University of Nebraska, in Chicago's aging Palmer House, lying on the bed next to an unhappy and possibly inebriated Dr. Benjamin Spock. We were at a conference of the American Medical Stu…
The Kothi Wars
"Escaping Steigerwald's "Plastic Cages
Journal Article Escaping Steigerwald's “Plastic Cages”: Consumers as Subjects and Objects in Modern Capitalism Get access Lizabeth Cohen Lizabeth Cohen Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the Department of History at Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93, Issue 2, September 2006, Pages 409–413, https://doi.org/10.2307/4486237 Published: …
Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception
This chapter contains section titled: Empire and Exception Life at a Distance Loving Exception Bioavailability Operability The Medicalization of Politics Notes
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