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Fourth Edition The Cultural Context of Aging, 2020 Jay Sokolovsky, Editor
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Part V
Part VI
Key Anthro Aging Guide
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Fourth Edition The Cultural Context of Aging, 2020 Jay Sokolovsky, Editor
Home
Buy Now!
Book Contents
Web Book
Chapter Resources
Introduction
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Key Anthro Aging Guide
Sample Syllabi
WEB BOOK
Part I
2. Harriet G. Rosenberg “Aging, and Caregiving among the Ju’hoansi of Botswana—with 2018” Update
3. Mike Gurven and Hillard Kaplan. “Beyond the Grandmother Hypothesis: Evolutionary Models of Human Longevity” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-gurven
5. Christine L Fry, et al. “Culture and the Meaning of a Good Old Age.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-fry
6. Harry Moody “From Successful Aging to Conscious Aging.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-moody
7. Yewoubdar Beyene. “Menopause: A BioCultural Event” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-beyene
9. Anthony Glascock. “Is Killing Necessarily Murder?: Moral Questions Surrounding Assisted Suicide and Death.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-glascock
Part II
14. Gabriela Ramos Bonilla and Erika Jaclyn Tirado Ratto. “Curriculum Vitae: A photographic essay of elderly urban workers from Peru.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-bonillaratto
15. Featherstone, Mike and Mike Hepworth. “Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-featherstonehepworth
16. Donna M. Butts. “Intergenerational Sites: New Trends in Urban Planning, Global Trends, and Good Practices from the United States and Beyond” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-butts
17. Cattell, Maria G. “Global Perspectives on Widowhood and Aging.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-cattell
18. Weibel-Orlando, Joan. “Grandparenting Styles: The Contemporary Native Americans Experience.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-weibel
Part III
19. Christine L Fry. “Aging and the Age of Globalization.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-fryglobalization
23. Jeanne Shea. “One to One” and “Five by One”: The Senior Companions Program in China.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-shea
Part IV
28. Shireen Walton. “Fare insieme: making and doing things together in Milan.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-walton
31. Linda Carson. “Battling a New Epidemic: American Indian Elders and Diabetes.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-carson
32. Mary Hegland, “Losing, Using and Crafting Spaces for Aging: Muslim Iranian American in California’s Santa Clara Valley.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-hegland
33. Iveris Martinez. “Aging in Exile: Family Support and Emotional Well-Being among Older Cuban Immigrants in the United States.” https://culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-martinez-aginginexile/
34. Jane Peterson “Age of Wisdom: Elderly Black Women in Family and Church.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-peterson
Part V
35. Edi Indrizal, Philip Kreager, and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill. “The Structural Vulnerability of Older People in a Matrilineal Society: The Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-indrizal
37. Iveris Martinez and Ebru Ozer. “Working Together Across Generations: An Experiment in Open Space Design.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-martinez
38. Gusmano, Michael. “Growing Older in World Cities: Benefits and Burdens.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-gusmano
41. Stephen Katz. “Spaces of Age – About the Elderscapes of Charlotte County FLA.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-katz
42. Tsuji, Yohko. “An Organization for the Elderly, by the Elderly: A Senior Center in the United States.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-tsuji
43. Dorothy Counts and David Counts. “Where are the Bones in Their Noses?: Community Aged in North American RV Camps and in Papua New Guinea.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-countscounts
Part VI
47. Charlotte Hawkins & Laura Haapio-Kirk. “Female mutual support in Kyoto and Kampala.” Web photo essay chapter. https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-hawkinshaapiokirk
48. Gabriela Nicolescu. “Keeping the Elderly Alive: Global Entanglements and Embodied Practices in Long-Term Care in Southeast Italy” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-nicolescu
51. Barbara Pieta “Differently Young” and “Non-autosufficienti”: Managing Old-Age Stigma in a Senior Center 668 https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-pieta
52. Annette Leibing. “Heroic Stories of Dementia Care: Grandchildren as Caregivers and Fallacies of Care.” Adapted with permission from: Kulturen der Sorge, Wie unsere Gesellschaft ein Leben mit Demenz ermöglichen kann, Harm-Peer Zimmermann (ed.), Campus, 2018, pp. 177-194. https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-leibing
53. Athena Mclean. “Beyond the Institution: Dementia Care and the Promise of the Green House Project” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-mclean
54. Polivka, Larry. “The Future of Aging in Post-Industrial Context.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-polivka
55. Barker, Judith C. “Between Humans and Ghosts: The Decrepit Elderly in a Polynesian Society.” https://www.culturalcontextofaging.com/webbook-barker