Transitions and transformations : cultural perspectives on aging and the life course /

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Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2013. ©2013
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Life course, culture and aging:global transformations ; volume 1 Life course, culture and aging ; v. 1.
Subject:	Aging -- Cross-cultural studies. Aging -- Social aspects. Life cycle, Human. Aged. Socioeconomic Factors. Aging -- psychology. Quality of Life. Cross-Cultural Comparison. Aging. Aging -- Social aspects. Life cycle, Human. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12481388

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Varying Form of Title:	Cultural perspectives on aging and the life course
Other authors / contributors:	Lynch, Caitrin, editor. Danely, Jason, editor.
ISBN:	9780857457790 0857457799 9781299777606 1299777600 9780857457783 0857457780 9781782389064 1782389067
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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. The volume 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.
Other form:	Print version: Transitions and Transformations. New York : Berghahn Books, 2013 9781782389064

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