Transitions and Transformations
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Transitions and Transformations

Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

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Transitions and Transformations

Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

About this book

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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INDEX

Page numbers followed by letters f and t refer to figures and tables, respectively.
A
abandonment, in eldercare narrative, 177–79
active wisdom, in Adulthood II, 28–29
adolescence. See also youth
in Erikson life cycle model, 24–25, 24t
similarity to Adulthood II, 28, 30
adult day centers, in Kyoto, 107–8
adulthood
elusive, 221
in Erikson life cycle model, 24t, 25
stages of, 21
thwarted, 222
transition to, 223–25
Adulthood I
end of, 27
moratorium after, 32
Adulthood II
caretaking in, 29
continuity in choices during, 31–32
description of concept, 21
discontinuity in choices during, 31–32
identity in, 30
meaning in, 32–33
participants in study of, 22
productivity in, 32–33
prosocial activism in, 33
psychosocial crises in, 30
recognition of, 24t, 27–28
role models for, 31
similarity to adolescence, 28, 30
stereotypes of aging and, 28
transitions to, 32–33
wisdom in, 28–29
age
in cultural processes, 222
masculinity belonging to, 67
in Mexican masculinity, 65–68
in patriarchy, 22
age-mate equality, emphasis on, 208
agency, through work, 196–202
age ranks, in life cycle, 9
aging. See also old age
adolescent stereotypes about, 28
alarmist theories of, 19n4
anthropological theory of, 11–12
in Asia, Western stereotypes of, 55
cultural diversity in models of, 5–6
as dynamic process, 5
in families, in India, 173–76
four-generation pattern of, 21
as global crisis, 221
in identifying gengnianqi, 54
identity in, 225
omnipresence of questions about, 219
in public-private spaces, 97–100
scholarship on, 229–30
self-actualization in, 86–88, 91n14
stereotypes about, 28, 45, 193
Third Age perspective on, 124–25
anal stage, in Erikson life cycle model, 23, 24t
ancestors, Japanese. See hotoke
anger
in eldercare decisions, 162–63
in gengnianqi, 59
anthropological methods, in life-course studies, 7
anthropology
cultural differences used in, 5–6
influence on Erikson, 25–26
in life-course approach, 6–7
theory of aging in, 11–12
Arab Spring, 219
arthritis, mis...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Illustartions
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Section I. Frameworks
  9. Section II. Bodies
  10. Section III. Spatiality and Temporality
  11. Section IV. Families
  12. Section V. Economies
  13. Notes on Contributors
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index