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The Anthropology of Retirement : Life Beyond Work / edited by Pauline Garvey and Daniel Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Life course, culture and aging ; v. 12.
- Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations Series ; v. 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aging--Anthropological aspects.
- Aging.
- Retirement--Social aspects.
- Retirement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2025.
- Summary:
- Experience of retirement varies considerably across the globe, from areas where most people cannot afford to retire to places where a multitude of new possibilities are being developed for retirees. This book is an anthropological approach to consider the range of contexts and consequences that impact life beyond work.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The Presumptions of Retirement / Daniel Miller, Pauline Garvey
- Returns to (Non)Retirement?: Ageing Migrant Domestic Workers Linking Pasts and Futures / Megha Amrith
- Waiting to Retire in Rural Northeastern Brazil / Martin Fotta
- Downsizing, Rightsizing: Managing the Contours of Choice and Obligation in Retirement / Pauline Garvey
- New Expectations of Life in Retirement: Insights from Odisha, India / Annapurna Pandey
- The Power of Retirement / Alice Millar, Daniel Millar
- Retirement and Caring Masculinities in Later Life: Experiences of an Older Husband as Carer in Local Communities in Spain / Carlos Chirinos
- The Good Years, Having Time, and Time as a Gift: Experiences of Time in Retirement for People with Parkinson’s Disease in Australia and New Zealand / Imogen Spray
- Afterword. Retiring Lives? / David Prendergast.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-83695-036-5
- 1-83695-029-2
- OCLC:
- 1522807048
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