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Lynch / Danely

Transitions and Transformations

Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-78238-906-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Erscheinungstermin: 01.02.2015
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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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781782389064
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-78238-906-4
  • Verlag: Berghahn Books
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.02.2015
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2015
  • Serie: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 413 g
  • Seiten: 280
  • Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 16 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Caitrin Lynch is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and Visiting Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University.

Jason Danely is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College and editor of the journal Anthropology and Aging Quarterly.

PART I: FRAMEWORKS Introduction: Transitions and Transformations: Paradigms, Perspectives, and Possibilities
Chapter 1. Changes in the Life Course: Strengths and Stages
PART II: BODIES Chapter 2. Narrating Pain and Seeking Continuity: A Life-Course Approach to Chronic Pain Management
Chapter 3. Venting Anger From the Body During : Meanings of Midlife Transition Among Chinese Women in Reform-Era Beijing
Chapter 4. "I Don't Want to Be Like My Father:" Masculinity, Modernity, and Intergenerational Relationships in Mexico
PART III: SPATIALITY AND TEMPORALITY Chapter 5. Shifting Moral Ideals of Aging in Poland: Suffering, Self-Actualization, and the Nation
Chapter 6. A Window into Death: Euthanasia and End-of-Life in the Public-Private Space of the Dutch Home
Chapter 7. Temporality, Spirituality, and the Life Course in an Aging Japan
PART IV: FAMILIES Chapter 8. "I Have to Stay Healthy:" Elder Caregiving and the Third Age in a Brazilian Community
Chapter 9. Grandmothering in Life-Course Perspective:  A Study of Puerto Rican Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren in the United States
Chapter 10. Care Work and Property Transfers: Intergenerational Family Obligations in Sri Lanka
PART V: ECONOMIES Chapter 11. Personhood, Appropriate Dependence, and the Rise of Eldercare Institutions in India
Chapter 12. Membership and Mattering: Agency and Work in a New England Factory
Chapter 13. Life Courses of Indebtedness in Rural Nigeria
Afterword: On Generations and Aging: "Fresh Contact" of a Different Sort
Contributors' Bios
Bibliography