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Generations and globalization : youth, age, and family in the new world economy / edited by Jennifer Cole & Deborah Durham.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Tracking globalization.
- Tracking globalization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intergenerational relations.
- Age groups.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""This volume illuminates how families and the communities in which they are enmeshed negotiate everyday lives with the social, cultural, economic, and political resources available to them. It provides an excellent example of how anthropology matters to our understanding of the contemporary world and its global restructuring."" -- Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern UniversityGlobalization is not only a large-scale phenomenon: it is also inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personhood
- Contents:
- Introduction: Age, regeneration, and the intimate politics of globalization / Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham
- Chinese children, American education : globalizing child rearing in contemporary China / T.E. Woronov
- Continuity and change in San Pedro Tlalcuapan, Mexico : childhood, social reproduction, and transnational migration / Roger Magazine and Martha Areli Ramirez Sanchez
- Fresh contact in Tamatave, Madagascar : sex, money, and intergenerational transformation / Jennifer Cole
- Empowering youth : making youth citizens in Botswana / Deborah Durham
- Aging across worlds : modern seniors in an Indian diaspora / Sarah Lamb
- Maintaining local dependencies : elderly women and global rehabilitation agendas in southeastern Botswana / Julie Livingston
- The old world and its new economy : notes on the "third age" in Western Europe today / Jessica Greenberg and Andrea Muehlebach.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612073021
- 1-282-07302-8
- 0-253-11223-0
- OCLC:
- 476072306
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