Transitions and transformations cultural perspectives on aging and the life course (Life course, culture and aging: global transformations, volume 1)

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....

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Main Authors Lynch, Caitrin, Danely, Jason
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY Berghahn Books 2013
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition1
SeriesLife course, culture and aging : global transformations
Subjects
Aging
Anthropology
Cross-cultural studies
Cultural
Gerontology
JHM
Life cycle, Human
MFKH3
Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sociology
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Summary: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. It 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.
ISBN:0857457780
9780857457783
0857457799
9780857457790
DOI:10.1515/9780857457790