TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bateson,Mary Catherine
AU  - Brown,Diana De G.
AU  - Cole,Jennifer
AU  - Danely,Jason
AU  - Gamburd,Michele Ruth
AU  - Guyer,Jane I.
AU  - Lamb,Sarah
AU  - Lynch,Caitrin
AU  - Martin,Lindsey
AU  - Norwood,Frances
AU  - Robbins,Jessica C.
AU  - Rodríguez-Galán,Marta B.
AU  - Salami,Kabiru K.
AU  - Shea,Jeanne L.
AU  - Wentzell,Emily
TI  - Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course 
T2  - Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
SN  - 9780857457783
U1  - 305.26 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Aging
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Life cycle, Human
KW  - Older people
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Medical Anthropology
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; SECTION I FRAMEWORKS --; Introduction TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS Paradigms, Perspectives, and Possibilities --; 1. CHANGES IN THE LIFE COURSE Strengths and Stages --; SECTION II BODIES --; 2. NARRATING PAIN AND SEEKING CONTINUITY A Life-Course Approach to Chronic Pain Management --; 3. VENTING ANGER FROM THE BODY DURING GENGNIANQI Meanings of Midlife Transition among Chinese Women in Reform-Era Beijing --; 4. “I DON’T WANT TO BE LIKE MY FATHER” Masculinity, Modernity, and Intergenerational Relationships in Mexico --; SECTION III SPATIALITY AND TEMPORALITY --; 5. SHIFTING MORAL IDEALS OF AGING IN POLAND Suffering, Self-Actualization, and the Nation --; 6. A WINDOW INTO DUTCH LIFE AND DEATH Euthanasia and End-of-Life in the Public-Private Space of Home --; 7. TEMPORALITY, SPIRITUALITY, AND THE LIFE COURSE IN AN AGING JAPAN --; SECTION IV FAMILIES --; 8. “I HAVE TO STAY HEALTHY” Elder Caregiving and the Third Age in a Brazilian Community --; 9. GRANDMOTHERING IN LIFE-COURSE PERSPECTIVE A Study of Puerto Rican Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren in the United States --; 10. CARE WORK AND PROPERTY TRANSFERS Intergenerational Family Obligations in Sri Lanka --; SECTION V ECONOMIES --; 11. PERSONHOOD, APPROPRIATE DEPENDENCE, AND THE RISE OF ELDERCARE INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA --; 12. MEMBERSHIP AND MATTERING Agency and Work in a New England Factory --; 13. LIFE COURSES OF INDEBTEDNESS IN RURAL NIGERIA --; Afterword ON GENERATIONS AND AGING “Fresh Contact” of a Different Sort --; CONTRIBUTORS --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857457790
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857457790
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857457790/original
ER  -