Background
Lawrence Cohen was born on June 28, 1961, in Montreal, Canada. He is a son of David and Helen Cohen.
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Harvard University where Lawrence Cohen studied and earned his Doctor of philosophy degree.
(From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-centur...)
From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detailed investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world.
https://www.amazon.com/No-Aging-India-Lawrence-Cohen/dp/0520224620/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, ...)
Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural perspective that is based on ethnographic fieldwork and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect.
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-About-Dementia-Anthropology-Senility/dp/0813538033/?tag=2022091-20
2006
Lawrence Cohen was born on June 28, 1961, in Montreal, Canada. He is a son of David and Helen Cohen.
Lawrence Cohen studied at Harvard University. In 1983 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in religion. Later he earned a Master of Arts degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in anthropology in 1992.
Lawrence Cohen also had fellowships in Delhi and Simla. His fieldwork has been primarily in urban north India (Banaras, Lucknow, Allahabad), in the metropoli (Delhi, Calcutta, Mumbai, Chennai, and Bangalore), and in parts of rural U.P., Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh.
Lawrence Cohen started his career as an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. Soon he became an associate professor of anthropology. In 1988 he published his book No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Rad Family, and Other Modern Things. The Indian edition was published in 1999. The book has won the 1998 Victor Turner Prize, the 1989 AES First Book Prize, and Honorable Mention for the 1999 Wellcome Medal. Reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Current Anthropology, Anthropological Quarterly, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology.
In 2004 Lawrence Cohen became a director of medical anthropology program at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006 the book Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility was published. Now he teaches both in Anthropology and in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
(From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-centur...)
1998(Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, ...)
2006