TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF SENILITY - ANGER, WEAKNESS, AND ALZHEIMERS IN BANARAS, INDIA
TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF SENILITY - ANGER, WEAKNESS, AND ALZHEIMERS IN BANARAS, INDIA
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DOI：
10.1525/maq.1995.9.3.02a00030
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发表时间：
1995-09-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
COHEN, L
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作者：
COHEN, L
痴呆症很少受到跨文化和跨阶级的分析，其病理学的明显性和意义。实地调查与老年人和他们的家庭在四个街区的Banaras，印度，分层按类，提出了建议需要一个人类学的衰老。中心的“热脑”的愤怒，而不是记忆作为一个基本指标的老年差异，探索通过其在这些社区的阶级和性别的差异建设。愤怒的声音的听力检查有关的弱点，疯狂和“sixtyshness”的地方知识和实践，保持代际差异，通过建设什么是这里所谓的家庭机构。
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 differential construction across class and gender in these neighborhoods. The hearing of the angry voice is examined in relation to local knowledge about weakness, madness, and ''sixtyishness'' and to practices that maintain intergenerational difference through the construction of what is here termed a familial body.