Transitions and transformations [[electronic resource] ] : cultural perspectives on aging and the life course / / edited by Caitrin Lynch and Jason Danely

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 recurso online (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.26
• Soggetto topico: Aging; Aging - Social aspects; Life cycle, Human
• Soggetto non controllato: Medical Anthropology
• Altri autori: LynchCaitrin DanelyJason
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-254) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: section I. Frameworks -- section II. Bodies -- section III. Spatiality and temporality -- section IV. Families -- section V. Economics.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Transitions and transformations
• ISBN: 1-78238-906-7; 0-85745-779-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779836003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Life course, culture and aging ; ; v. 1.