Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Med Anthropol Q. 2022 Sep;36(3):391-411. doi: 10.1111/maq.12707. Epub 2022 Apr 29.
As the Gaddi community of Himalayan India transition from agro-pastoralism to waged labor, configurations of kinship and care have shifted. Such shifts have introduced relational tensions, especially between elderly women, who have labored in the house and fields, expecting care in old age, and younger generations, who experience their own pressures of class aspiration. This article examines how the myriad tensions of the post-pastoral economy are experienced in the bodies of elderly women. It presents insights on kamzori, bodily weakness that is experienced by women who feel that their contribution of labor and care is unreciprocated by their kin or wider milieu. It recuperates alienation as a concept that captures distressed social relations. Alienation might be used by anthropologists studying aging, care, and debility to envisage the body in scalar relation to people, things and places, and illness or distress as disruption of such relations. [weakness, aging, care, gender, alienation].
随着印度喜马拉雅地区的加迪社区从农牧混合经济向雇佣劳动转变，亲属关系和照料关系也发生了变化。这种转变带来了关系紧张，特别是在那些曾经在家庭和田间劳作、期望晚年得到照顾的老年妇女和那些经历着自身阶级抱负压力的年轻一代之间。本文考察了后农牧经济的种种紧张关系是如何在老年妇女的身体中体现的。它提出了关于 kamzori 的见解，即那些感到自己的劳动和照料没有得到亲属或更广泛环境回报的妇女所经历的身体虚弱。它将异化作为一个概念来理解，这个概念捕捉到了痛苦的社会关系。对于研究老龄化、护理和虚弱的人类学家来说，异化可以用来设想身体与人和物的关系，以及疾病或痛苦对这种关系的破坏。
