Life, Illness, and Death in Contemporary South Asia: Living through the Age of Hope and Precariousness - Paperback

by Matsuo Mizuho (Editor), Nakamura Sae (Editor), Funahashi Kenta (Editor)

This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life, ageing, illness, and death. It will be of interest to anthropology, sociology, history, medical and development studies of South Asia, and cultural and social theory.

Author Biography

Mizuho Matsuo is Associate Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan.
Sae Nakamura is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.
Kenta Funahashi is Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Ryukoku University, Japan.