Transitions and transformations
Subtitle: cultural perspectives on aging and the life course
By: edited by Caitrin Lynch & Jason Danely
Publisher: Berghahn Books; Berghahn
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780857457783; 9780857457790
Subjects: Social aspects; Aging; Cross-cultural studies; Human Life cycle
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. 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.