Rethinking the generation gap: Age and agency in middle-class Kolkata

Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 83-97

  Lamb, Sarah ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Culture; Elder care; Generation gap; India; Personhood; Social change

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051626791     PISSN: 19325614     EISSN: 19325622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19325611003767698     Document Type: Article

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