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Transitions and transformations : cultural perspectives on aging and the life course / edited by Caitrin Lynch and Jason Danely.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Life course, culture and aging ; v. 1.
- Life course, culture and aging:global transformations ; v. 1
- Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aging--Cross-cultural studies.
- Aging.
- Aging--Social aspects.
- Life cycle, Human.
- Physical Description:
- 1 recurso online (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- 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 facto
- Contents:
- section I. Frameworks
- section II. Bodies
- section III. Spatiality and temporality
- section IV. Families
- section V. Economics.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-245-0
- 1-78238-906-7
- 0-85745-779-9
- OCLC:
- 855505443
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