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Titolo: | Transitions and transformations : cultural perspectives on aging and the life course / / edited by Caitrin Lynch and Jason Danely |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn, 2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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.: | 9910820384903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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