Sarah Lamb
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3617467 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sarah Lamb |
| NOMBRES | Sarah |
| APELLIDO | Lamb |
| FIRMA | LAMB S |
| AFILIACIONES | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4619-3269 |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 330 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Innovation biography and network analysis as instruments for evaluating inclusion policy the case of Single Contact Points for Employers
Introduction to special edition
Social contact and the perceived impact of social distancing on health outcomes during the Covid-19 pandemic among community dwelling older adults taking part in the Opal cohort study
Less contact with other people was associated with perceived worsening in overall health. Although many older people reported using online technology, such as video calls, a substantial proportion were not using them. Older people facing financial strain were more likely to report worsened health, highlighting the impact of social inequalities during the pandemic. Going outside less was also associated with perceived worsened health
Healthy aging, self-care, and choice in India
Who Wants to Have an Aged Self If to Age Is So Bad? Ageless and Aged Selves as Cultural Constructs
Transitions and Transformations
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions …
Being Single in India
Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single women in India, examining what makes living outside of marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the stories of never-married women as young as 35 and as old…
On Vulnerability, Resilience, and Age
Portfolio
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes
This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social life, but also to contribute to contemporary theories of gender, the body, and culture, which have bee…
As the World Ages
Reviewed by: As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis by Kavita Sivaramakrishnan Sarah Lamb Kavita Sivaramakrishnan. As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. xiii + 320 pp. $39.95 (978–0–674–50463–9). This ambitious book offers an enlightening intellectual history of the making of gerontology and emergence of aging as a global concern. The author, a public health historian, tr…
On Being (Not) Old
This article examines U.S. endeavors to eradicate old age. Drawing on research with older, mostly white, Americans across social classes, I probe how older people engage in "healthy," "successful" aging as a moral project, health identity, and way of approaching the life course. Moving beyond influential literature on biopolitics and biomedicine that tends to treat medicine, science, and biopolitical governance as overdetermined causal forces, I …
Interrogating Healthy/Successful Aging
Each of these headlines describes a public archaeology project.The variety of these projects-one about risk management, one about cultural resource management (CRM), and one about engaging middle school students in archaeological research and documentation-attests to the fact that public archaeology is everywhere.News articles, but also books, journals, educational programs (for professional archaeologists, archaeologists-in-training, avocational…
Being Single in India
This article explores the stories of single women living in the urban metropolis of Kolkata, and in smaller towns and villages of West Bengal, as a means to illuminate emerging possibilities and constraints of selfhood for women in contemporary India. In so doing, the piece examines the ways gendered identities intersect with other forces and ideals at stake, including the institution of heterosexual marriage, class mobilities, and values surroun…
Anthropology and the Rashomon Effect
The Human Empowerment Sequence and the Development of Libertarian Values
Building on the work of Inglehart and colleagues, Welzel sets out a step-by-step theory explaining how democracies arise from processes of modernization. The intermediary stages in the causal chain he sets out explain the connection between action resources and emancipatory values. In short, Welzel provides strong evidence that people must first have the material, intellectual, and connective resources to exercise certain freedoms before they dev…
Generation in Anthropology
Permanent personhood or meaningful decline? Toward a critical anthropology of successful aging
In/dependence, Intergenerational Uncertainty, and the Ambivalent State
This essay examines competing perspectives on old age security within contemporary Indian families and society. Ideas and policies concerning old age security are intricately connected to broader cultural meanings and values—surrounding personhood, the life course, family moral systems, and perceptions of the very nature and identity of a wider society and nation. The family in India has long been viewed as the central site of ageing and elder ca…
Cultures of Servitude
Developing Evidence for How to Tailor Medical Interventions for the Individual Patient
We aim to answer the question: How can we develop an evidence base that will assist tailoring health interventions to individual patients? Using social theory and interview data from people living with chronic illness, we developed a new approach to analysis. Individuals were considered as emergent complex systems, adjusting and adapting within their environment and sometimes transforming. The notion of illness trajectory brought our attention to…
Pursuits of Happiness
Ageing without children
Beyond Thirdness
Book Review| October 01 2006 Beyond Thirdness With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India Gayatri Reddy Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi + 310 pp. Sarah Lamb Sarah Lamb Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (4): 649–651. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-009 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook…
Seeking Bauls of Bengal. Jeanne Openshaw
Permanent personhood or meaningful decline? Toward a critical anthropology of successful aging
The Making and Unmaking of Persons
This article explores aging and gender as dimensions ofpersonhood in West Bengal, India. The work of aging requires unravelling bodily and emotional ties (maya) to people, places, and things, even though these ties feel compellingly stronger and more numerous as life progresses. Women differ from men in that their connections are unmade and remade at a greater number of critical junctures in their lives, not only through aging and dying, but also…
Intimacy in a Transnational Era
Intimacy in a Transnational Era:The Remaking of Aging among Indian Americans1 Sarah Lamb (bio) Sarah Lamb Brandeis University Sarah Lamb Sarah Lamb is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is the author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India (University of California Press, 2000) and co-editor, with Diane Mines, of Everyday Life in South Asia (Indiana University Press, 2002). Some of her…
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…
On Being (Not) Old
This article examines U.S. endeavors to eradicate old age. Drawing on research with older, mostly white, Americans across social classes, I probe how older people engage in "healthy," "successful" aging as a moral project, health identity, and way of approaching the life course. Moving beyond influential literature on biopolitics and biomedicine that tends to treat medicine, science, and biopolitical governance as overdetermined causal forces, I …
Cultures of Servitude
Aging, gender and widowhood
This paper explores widowhood in rural West Bengal from the perspective of age. Although widowhood in India has grabbed the attention of scholars and social reformers for a good century now,1 the focus of this attention has been (usually without explicitly acknowledg ing it) on women widowed at a relatively young age. Debates over widow remarriage, the perceived dangers of a widow's sexuality, a young widow's anomalous childlessness etc., all-it …
Being Single in India
This article explores the stories of single women living in the urban metropolis of Kolkata, and in smaller towns and villages of West Bengal, as a means to illuminate emerging possibilities and constraints of selfhood for women in contemporary India. In so doing, the piece examines the ways gendered identities intersect with other forces and ideals at stake, including the institution of heterosexual marriage, class mobilities, and values surroun…
In/dependence, Intergenerational Uncertainty, and the Ambivalent State
This essay examines competing perspectives on old age security within contemporary Indian families and society. Ideas and policies concerning old age security are intricately connected to broader cultural meanings and values—surrounding personhood, the life course, family moral systems, and perceptions of the very nature and identity of a wider society and nation. The family in India has long been viewed as the central site of ageing and elder ca…
Being Single in India
Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single women in India, examining what makes living outside of marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the stories of never-married women as young as 35 and as old…
Developing Evidence for How to Tailor Medical Interventions for the Individual Patient
We aim to answer the question: How can we develop an evidence base that will assist tailoring health interventions to individual patients? Using social theory and interview data from people living with chronic illness, we developed a new approach to analysis. Individuals were considered as emergent complex systems, adjusting and adapting within their environment and sometimes transforming. The notion of illness trajectory brought our attention to…
On Vulnerability, Resilience, and Age
Who Wants to Have an Aged Self If to Age Is So Bad? Ageless and Aged Selves as Cultural Constructs
Healthy aging, self-care, and choice in India
Aging and Menopause among Indian South African Women . Brian M. du Toit
Stories and Lives
Kirin Narayan. Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. xi. 285 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). Winner of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnography, 1990
The Making and Unmaking of Persons
This article explores aging and gender as dimensions ofpersonhood in West Bengal, India. The work of aging requires unravelling bodily and emotional ties (maya) to people, places, and things, even though these ties feel compellingly stronger and more numerous as life progresses. Women differ from men in that their connections are unmade and remade at a greater number of critical junctures in their lives, not only through aging and dying, but also…
Social Suffering
Social Suffering. Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das, and Margaret Lock, eds. Cambridge, MA: Daedalus, Journal of the American Acadunmarked. emy of Arts and Sciences, 125. Winter 1996. 283 pp., endnotes
Body Thoughts
Body Thoughts. ANDREW J. STRATHERN. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. viii + 222 pp., references, Index
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…
Aging, gender and widowhood
This paper explores widowhood in rural West Bengal from the perspective of age. Although widowhood in India has grabbed the attention of scholars and social reformers for a good century now,1 the focus of this attention has been (usually without explicitly acknowledg ing it) on women widowed at a relatively young age. Debates over widow remarriage, the perceived dangers of a widow's sexuality, a young widow's anomalous childlessness etc., all-it …
Being a Widow and Other Life Stories
This article looks at life stories, not just as tales about the past but as creative acts of self‐making and culture making. It explores life stories told by older women in West Bengal, India, focusing on one told by a childless widow. Previous scholars have made the important distinction between life as represented (through telling a story) and life as (actually) lived and experienced. This article suggests a somewhat different track: telling a …
Intimacy in a Transnational Era
Intimacy in a Transnational Era:The Remaking of Aging among Indian Americans1 Sarah Lamb (bio) Sarah Lamb Brandeis University Sarah Lamb Sarah Lamb is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is the author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India (University of California Press, 2000) and co-editor, with Diane Mines, of Everyday Life in South Asia (Indiana University Press, 2002). Some of her…
Seeking Bauls of Bengal. Jeanne Openshaw
Beyond Thirdness
Book Review| October 01 2006 Beyond Thirdness With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India Gayatri Reddy Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi + 310 pp. Sarah Lamb Sarah Lamb Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (4): 649–651. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-009 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook…
Ageing without children
Developing Evidence for How to Tailor Medical Interventions for the Individual Patient
We aim to answer the question: How can we develop an evidence base that will assist tailoring health interventions to individual patients? Using social theory and interview data from people living with chronic illness, we developed a new approach to analysis. Individuals were considered as emergent complex systems, adjusting and adapting within their environment and sometimes transforming. The notion of illness trajectory brought our attention to…
Pursuits of Happiness
Cultures of Servitude
In/dependence, Intergenerational Uncertainty, and the Ambivalent State
This essay examines competing perspectives on old age security within contemporary Indian families and society. Ideas and policies concerning old age security are intricately connected to broader cultural meanings and values—surrounding personhood, the life course, family moral systems, and perceptions of the very nature and identity of a wider society and nation. The family in India has long been viewed as the central site of ageing and elder ca…
Permanent personhood or meaningful decline? Toward a critical anthropology of successful aging
Generation in Anthropology
Anthropology and the Rashomon Effect
The Human Empowerment Sequence and the Development of Libertarian Values
Building on the work of Inglehart and colleagues, Welzel sets out a step-by-step theory explaining how democracies arise from processes of modernization. The intermediary stages in the causal chain he sets out explain the connection between action resources and emancipatory values. In short, Welzel provides strong evidence that people must first have the material, intellectual, and connective resources to exercise certain freedoms before they dev…
Being Single in India
This article explores the stories of single women living in the urban metropolis of Kolkata, and in smaller towns and villages of West Bengal, as a means to illuminate emerging possibilities and constraints of selfhood for women in contemporary India. In so doing, the piece examines the ways gendered identities intersect with other forces and ideals at stake, including the institution of heterosexual marriage, class mobilities, and values surroun…
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes
This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social life, but also to contribute to contemporary theories of gender, the body, and culture, which have bee…
As the World Ages
Reviewed by: As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis by Kavita Sivaramakrishnan Sarah Lamb Kavita Sivaramakrishnan. As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. xiii + 320 pp. $39.95 (978–0–674–50463–9). This ambitious book offers an enlightening intellectual history of the making of gerontology and emergence of aging as a global concern. The author, a public health historian, tr…
On Being (Not) Old
This article examines U.S. endeavors to eradicate old age. Drawing on research with older, mostly white, Americans across social classes, I probe how older people engage in "healthy," "successful" aging as a moral project, health identity, and way of approaching the life course. Moving beyond influential literature on biopolitics and biomedicine that tends to treat medicine, science, and biopolitical governance as overdetermined causal forces, I …
Interrogating Healthy/Successful Aging
Each of these headlines describes a public archaeology project.The variety of these projects-one about risk management, one about cultural resource management (CRM), and one about engaging middle school students in archaeological research and documentation-attests to the fact that public archaeology is everywhere.News articles, but also books, journals, educational programs (for professional archaeologists, archaeologists-in-training, avocational…
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