https://www.sarah-lamb.com/home daily 1.0 2026-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/6632deb5-58c7-49d4-aa88-47a34953e013/PXL_20260508_182622172.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/5dca5773-4c46-488f-ac9c-8d440a61d142/SectaAI_tsndUhYx.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/ead6e5ff-5b14-418b-9432-47da2e0a5598/laughing+club.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/cc4db491-a1ac-42b4-be4e-5c532a2e8e08/portrait+tiny+dolls.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/9937e18e-dc04-4d94-82ab-d74c4628a400/white+sari+in+a+market.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/676c4652-973a-4d34-8b91-b937157c6203/PXL_20260508_181635689.TS-000.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/8848a1bb-11b8-4582-ba1f-107fb84b8d2c/PXL_20260508_182317468-EDIT.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/278172cc-78d9-48d3-b43e-cad075ba731c/SL+lecture.jpg Home - Invite She is currently working on a new book: I’d Rather Be Dead than Old, and Other Visions and Dilemmas of Aging Well (work in progress), which delves into the paradox of a contemporary culture obsessed with “successful aging” yet deeply uneasy with old age itself. Blending stories from the United States and India—and reflections from her own life—anthropologist Sarah Lamb explores how people variously embrace, resist, negotiate, and reimagine dominant ideals of aging well. She is happy to talk (virtually or in person) about this project or, more broadly, about aging, singleness, family, and gender. https://www.sarah-lamb.com/about daily 0.75 2026-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/ae4468f7-e2c2-4a00-a144-0c0d5edcbfac/SL+interview+older+lady.webp About Description here test test https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/e7a8453d-21f2-49b5-a55a-600c08e9e595/SL+fieldwork.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/7c3c19af-b6d1-47ce-b855-15736592a483/PXL_20260508_174123118.TS-000.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/fe4f60f7-cabf-4f15-899f-013cd1090354/IMG_0287.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/74006c58-94d9-4f9b-a5fc-ccdcf025dc85/PXL_20260508_180418595.MP.jpg About 1989 SL in Bengal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/3f3e1fcc-091f-400e-a456-ea79597f02ca/PXL_20260508_180439849.TS-000.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/00e91c47-2d7a-494e-b7e2-321169294b76/sarah+interviewing+family.png About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/50af1ef2-6b6a-44e5-97c1-10a034287ee2/PXL_20260508_182839893.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/eeb9eb74-4cb3-4864-bc59-37c541ddcd54/IMG_1261.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/a9a41685-0758-4529-9285-2fd8e26150d5/PXL_20260508_182407746.TS-000-EDIT.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/06ff03f7-33f0-4ce0-b570-a3e7f039cec9/PXL_20260508_180225005.TS-000.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/6cf8ef18-fa12-4389-b194-ae2d22f25223/IMG_0857.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/92ce9749-8750-4a0c-a448-70faaa8e586f/PXL_20260508_175750057.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/8bd6b37f-5fb4-4b18-90c3-c4b4fa65285d/IMG_0861.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/21754462-39ac-4b12-84d2-1621218ea687/PXL_20260508_182123257-EDIT.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/7e21ba38-f046-4203-a00e-d9398db22140/IMG_0796.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/79591b79-b43f-46a5-b1e7-b639a099572d/sarah+in+sari+with+3+women.png About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/ace3757b-2377-4c3e-bb28-1c104ccf7f11/sarah+and+a+birthday+cake.png About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/f7a48c1d-2c34-4e05-9b9a-280e3cf5e622/sarah+holding+baby.png About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/6058e48f-843a-4058-a805-066f91adce27/sarah+and+medtha.png About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/101e041d-c226-4305-be2f-9637387aa672/secta.ai_017.jpg https://www.sarah-lamb.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/69749bb0-9d8d-47c2-b4ba-be5a6ae95e6e/secta.ai_018.jpg https://www.sarah-lamb.com/publications daily 0.75 2026-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/55e5c4db-75f1-4ca8-b364-27ea3308e327/Being+single+in+india+book+cover.jpg Publications (author) U of California Press 2022 - In Being Single in India, Sarah Lamb examines the growing number of never-married women in India and the social, economic, and cultural forces that make singlehood both increasingly possible and deeply challenging. Through the stories of women across generations, classes, castes, and sexual identities, the book reveals how changing attitudes toward marriage illuminate broader transformations in gender, kinship, freedom, and belonging in contemporary India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/05b675b7-b9ae-43de-b8af-9e83f3613916/opting+out.jpg Publications Rutger University Press 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/83d84735-33bb-4cdc-8daa-1c4f239e75f4/aging+book+cover.jpg Publications (editor) Rutgers University Press 2017 In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging—striving through medical technique and individual effort to eradicate the declines, vulnerabilities, and dependencies previously commonly associated with old age. On the face of it, this bold new vision of successful, healthy, and active aging is highly appealing. But it also rests on a deep cultural discomfort with aging and being old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/8bc59b57-098e-4534-afb3-f64ec9cd66d0/waithood.jpg Publications Berghahn Books 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/ed613029-e3af-45ef-8044-6cf5dc2afcc7/Aging+and+the+Indian+Diasporia.png Publications (author) University of Indiana Press 2009 - The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to extensive overseas migration and the transnational dispersal of families. In this moving and insightful account, Sarah Lamb shows that older persons are innovative agents in the processes of social-cultural change. Lamb's study probes debates and cultural assumptions in both India and the United States regarding how best to age; the proper social-moral relationship among individuals, genders, families, the market, and the state; and ways of finding meaning in the human life course. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/97c4e041-5139-4774-9a5d-1c2f890fab79/The+Cultural+Context+of+Aging-+Worldwide+Perspectives.jpg Publications Praeger 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/23cbfc62-a657-4acd-87d1-9adfeefcabfe/everyday+aging.jpeg Publications (editor) Indiana University Press 2002/2009 This anthology provides a lively and stimulating view of the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, caste, class, religion, globalization, economic liberalization, nationalism, and emerging modernities. New readings focus attention on the experiences of the middle classes, migrant workers, and IT professionals, and on media, consumerism, and youth culture. Clear and engaged writing makes this text particularly valuable for general and student readers, while the range of new and classic scholarship provides a useful resource for specialists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/7d123df6-75e4-4dc1-88e2-dccbf9efa663/transnational+aging.jpg Publications Routledge 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/063305b6-7837-4815-813d-903a23a3201b/white+saris+book+cover.jpeg Publications (author) University of California Press 2000 This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social life, but also to contribute to contemporary theories of gender, the body, and culture, which have been hampered, the book argues, by a static focus on youth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/e63e9227-6fb4-4935-b4bb-d6172ad6191d/Indian+Diaspora-+Voices+of+the+Diasporic+Elders+in+Five+2008.jpg Publications Sense Publishers 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/30c421cf-9593-4f1e-88b8-466b83921489/dirt+undresss+cover.jpeg Publications University of Indiana Press 2005 https://www.sarah-lamb.com/research daily 0.75 2026-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c179c6c2e0c93e6dc30959/00e91c47-2d7a-494e-b7e2-321169294b76/sarah+interviewing+family.png Research - Research Sarah Lamb is a cultural and medical anthropologist whose research focuses on aging, gender, families, ethical strivings, and understandings of personhood in India and the United States. 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