Other ways of growing old
Subtitle: anthropological perspectives
By: edited by Pamela T. Amoss and Stevan Harrell.
Contributors: Amoss, Pamela.; Harrell, Stevan.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Older people; Older people -- Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Bibliography: p. [249]-261.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Pamela T. Amoss and Stevan Harrell; title: Evolutionary perspectives on human aging / Kenneth M. Weiss; title: "Nepotists" and "altruists" / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy; title: "The old people give you life" / Megan Biesele and Nancy Howell; title: Old age among the Chipewyan / Henry S. Sharp; title: The elderly Asmat of New Guinea / Peter W. Van Arsdale; title: Old age in Gwembe District, Zambia / Elizabeth Colson and Thayer Scudder; title: Respected elder or old person / James D. Nason; title: Growing in respect / N. Nazif Shahrani; title: Growing old in rural Taiwan / Stevan Harrell; title: Old age in a south Indian village / Paul G. Hiebert; title: Coast Salish elders / Pamela T. Amoss.