Contents

• Preface
• Note on Translation and Transliteration

• Introduction
• 1. Persons and Families
  • 1. Personhoods
  • 2.  Family Moral Systems
  • 3.  Conflicting Generations
• 2. Aging and Dying
  • 4.  White Saris and Sweet Mangoes, Partings and Ties
  • 5.  Dealing with Mortality
• 3.  Gendered Transformations
  • 6.  Transformations of Gender and Gendered Transformations
  • 7.  A Widow’s Bonds
  • 8. Afterword

• Glossary
• References