Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka

by Michele Ruth Gamburd

Book Overview

When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it. The care work that grandparents do...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197881531X
• ISBN13: 9781978815315
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher