Other cultures, elder years / Ellen Rhoads Holmes, Lowell D. Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Ellen Rhoads.

Contributor:

Holmes, Lowell D. (Lowell Don), 1925-2010.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging--Cross-cultural studies.

Aging.

Gerontology--Methodology.

Gerontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 324 p.) : ill.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The most comprehensive, comparative study available on worldwide patterns of ageing, this volume provides a summary of secondary sources, avoiding extensive review of primary research, complicated theory, and methodological issues.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents""; ""Preface ""; ""Chapter 1. The Anthropological Perspective ""; ""The Discipline of Anthropology ""; ""Comparative Analysis ""; ""Holistic Perspective ""; ""Emic-Etic Perspectives ""; ""Relativistic Perspective ""; ""Case-Study Approach ""; ""Process Analysis ""; ""Summary ""; ""Chapter 2. Longevity ""; ""Life Span and Evolution ""; ""Calculating Evolutionary Maximum Life-Span Potential ""; ""Evolution and Senescence ""; ""Demography and Aging ""; ""Population Aging""; ""Shangri-las ""; ""Abkhazia""; ""The Hunza""; ""Vilcabamba""

""Paros, Greece""""Yagodina""; ""Validity of Shangri-la Claims""; ""Abkhazia""; ""Hunza""; ""Vilcabamba""; ""Cultural Factors in Longevity""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3. The Life Cycle""; ""Age Stage Perceptions in Samoa and Colombia""; ""Aging as a Career""; ""Creativity and the Life Cycle""; ""Personality Changes in the Life Cycle""; ""Retirement""; ""Disengagement""; ""Roles of the Aged""; ""Political Leadership""; ""Differences in Roles of Aged Men and Women""; ""Death and Dying""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 4. Status and Family""; ""Modernization""; ""Prestige-Generating Components""

""Personal Achievement""""Societal Types""; ""Property Control""; ""Status and the Decrepit Elderly""; ""Defining Status""; ""Family, Kinship, and the Aged""; ""Generational Reciprocity""; ""Childlessness and Its Consequences""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 5. Community Studies""; ""Retirement Communities as Age-Graded Phenomena""; ""Non-Western Homes for the Aged""; ""Hong Kong""; ""Africa""; ""Japan""; ""Social Networks""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 6. Varieties of Aging Experience""; ""Growing Old in a Hunting Society: Eskimos""; ""Cultural Change""; ""Life in a Simple Agricultural Society: Samoa""

""Gerontocide""""Cultural Change""; ""Aging in an Industrial Economy: The United States""; ""The Cultural Setting""; ""How Old Is Old?""; ""The Aged Population""; ""Residence Patterns""; ""Early History""; ""Ceremonial Life""; ""Religion""; ""The Value Environment""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 7. Ethnic Aged in America""; ""African American Aged""; ""American Indian Aged""; ""The Reservation""; ""The Navajo""; ""Urban Aged Native Americans""; ""Mexican American Aged""; ""The Changing Scene""; ""Asian American Aged""; ""Chinese Americans""; ""Japanese Americans""; ""Italian Americans""

""Summary""""Chapter 8. Applying Anthropology: Culture, Health, and Aging""; ""Cultural Perspectives in Health Care""; ""African American Concepts of Illness""; ""Food Preferences""; ""Dementia""; ""Ethnic/Minority Support Groups""; ""Black and Hispanic Caregivers""; ""Long-Term Care Institutions""; ""Ethnicity and Institutionalization""; ""Nursing Homes in Other Cultures""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 9. The Aged and Cultural Change""; ""Salient Aspects of Modernization""; ""Criticisms of Aging and Modernization Theory""; ""Case Study of Modernization: Japan""; ""Summary""

""Chapter 10. The Future of Aging in America""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-315) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781322416991

1322416990

9780803951334

0803951337

9781452264981

1452264988

OCLC:

1007857913