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Transitions and Transformations : Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course / ed. by Caitrin Lynch, Jason Danely.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations ; 1Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857457783
  • 9780857457790
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  • 305.26 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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