Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

by Jason Danely

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857457780
• ISBN13: 9780857457783
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"