Umfang:
viii, 270 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780857457783
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9780857457790
Serie:
Life course, culture and aging 1
Inhalt:
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. The volume presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions in conjunction with broader sociocultural transformations. Through detailed accounts, in such diverse settings as nursing homes in Sri Lanka, a factory in Massachusetts, cemeteries in Japan and clinics in Mexico, the authors explore not simply our understandings of growing older, but the interweaving of individual maturity and intergenerational relationships, social and economic institutions, and intimate experiences of gender, identity, and the body
Inhalt:
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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FRAMEWORK. Introduction: Transitions and Transformations : Paradigms, Perspectives, and Possibilities
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BODIES. Narrating Pain and Seeking Continuity : A Life-Course Approach to Chronic Pain Management
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Venting Anger From the Body During Gengnianqi : Meanings of Midlife Transition Among Chinese Women in Reform-Era Beijing
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"I Don't Want to Be Like My Father " : Masculinity, Modernity, and Intergenerational Relationships in Mexico
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SPATIALITY AND TEMPORALITY. Shifting Moral Ideals of Aging in Poland : Suffering, Self-Actualization, and the Nation
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A Window into Death : Euthanasia and End-of-Life in the Public-Private Space of the Dutch Home
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Temporality, Spirituality, and the Life Course in an Aging Japan
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FAMILIES. "I Have to Stay Healthy" : Elder Caregiving and the Third Age in a Brazilian Community
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Grandmothering in Life-Course Perspective : A Study of Puerto Rican Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren in the United States
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Care Work and Property Transfers: Intergenerational Family Obligations in Sri Lanka
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ECONOMIES. Personhood, Appropriate Dependence, and the Rise of Eldercare Institutions in India
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Membership and Mattering: Agency and Work in a New England Factory
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Life Courses of Indebtedness in Rural Nigeria
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Afterword: On Generations and Aging : "Fresh Contact" of a Different Sort
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780857457790
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Ethnologie
Schlagwort(e):
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