Sarah Lamb (anthropologist)

Sarah Lamb (born 6 February 1960) is an American cultural anthropologist known for her writings on aging. She is Professor of Anthropology and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

She studies the ways people construct their social-cultural worlds and identities, particularly surrounding age, gender, the body, family, religion, and nation.

Lamb is the author of several books, including White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India (UC Press), Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad (Indiana U Press), Being Single in India: Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility (UC Press), and editor of Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession: Global Perspectives (Rutgers U Press and Everyday Life in South Asia (Indiana U Press, in two editions)

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