Transitions and transformations
cultural perspectives on aging and the life course
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Author
Publication
2013 - Berghahn Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
67,500 words, Guess
Page Count
270 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25372222M
- ISBN-139780857457783
- OCLC Control Number798498950
- OCLC Control Numbertransitionstrans0000unse_e4p2
- Library of Congress Control Number2012024974
Classifications
- DDC305.26
- LCCGN485 .T73 2013
Description
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.
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