Mentor Record


Lawrence Cohen

232 Kroeber Hall • Berkeley, CA 94720

<cohen@uclink.berkeley.edu>


Degrees Earned:
Degree
Discipline
School
Date
Ph. D Anthropology Harvard 1992

Subfields of interest within Anthropology:

South Asia, Medical Anthropology, Gerontology, Sex/Gender

Interests within G/L/B/T/Q Anthropology:

Same-sex representation and the genealogy of citizenship in contemporary India. Same-sex themes in modern Hindi and Indian English literature and film

Major Publications:

No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)

"Semen, Irony, and the Atom Bomb." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11(3):301–303, 1997

"Review: Queer Science Indeed." With Tom Boellstorff. Scientific American (October) 146–147, 1997

"Toward an Anthropology of Senility: Anger, Weakness, and Alzheimer's in Banaras, India." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 9(3):314–334, 1995

"The Pleasures of Castration: The Postoperative Status of Hijras, Jankhas, and Academics." Sexual Nature, Sexual Culture. Paul Abramson and Steven Pinkerton, eds. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press pp. 276–304, 1995)

"The Epistemological Carnival: Meditations on Disciplinary Intentionality and Ayurveda." Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions. Don Bates, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 320–343, 1995)

"Holi in Banaras and the Mahaland of Modernity." GLQ 2:399–424, 1995

"Old Age: Cultural and Critical Perspectives." Annual Review of Anthropology 23:137–58, 1994


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