| Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course Contributor(s): Lynch, Caitrin (Editor), Danely, Jason (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0857457780 ISBN-13: 9780857457783 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gerontology - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.26 |
| LCCN: 2012024974 |
| Series: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lynch, Caitrin: - 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. Danely, Jason: -Jason Danely is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College and editor of the journal Anthropology and Aging Quarterly. |