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University of Chicago, Ph.D. University of Chicago, M.A. Brown University, B.A. Sarah Lamb, Professor of Anthropology, is a cultural anthropologist who studies the ways people construct their social-cultural worlds and identities, particularly surrounding aging, gender, the body, family, and nation. She critically investigates everyday life practices and experiences, medical and legal discourses, and taken-for-granted assumptions, as a means to understand both how social-cultural worlds are made, and the nature of the particular forms of aging and gender (body, nation, etc.) that people believe in. After undergraduate training in religious studies at Brown University and graduate training in anthropology at the University of Chicago, she became a postdoctoral fellow in medical anthropology and sociocultural gerontology at the University of California-San Francisco. Her primary ethnographic research has been carried out in West Bengal, India and among Indian immigrants in the San Francisco and Boston areas of the United States. She is the author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in India, co-editor (with Diane Mines) of Everyday Life in South Asia (1st and 2nd editions), and author of many other articles and book chapters.