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Dancing For Their Lives - The Pursuit Of Meaningful Aging In Urban China

by Claudia Huang

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 Dancing for their Lives explores the vibrant world of retired Chinese women known as ""dancing granniesâ€ who seek fulfillment and companionship amidst societal upheaval. These women, part of Chinaâ€™s â€œlost generation,â€ gather in parks and public squares to reclaim their lives through dance in the wake of Chinese economic and cultural transformations.
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God'S Waiting Room - Racial Reckoning At Life'S End

by Casey Golomski

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 Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and lifeâ€™s lessons, Godâ€™s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Lifeâ€™s End considers what matters in the end for older white adults and the younger Black nurses who care for them.
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More-Than-Human Aging - Animals, Robots, And Care In Later Life

by Andrew Whitehouse e Cristina Douglas

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 So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms. This is the first collection of original work that considers aging as taking place in relation to other species. This volume aims to start a conversation about aging by taking its more-than-human participants seriously.
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Aspiring In Later Life - Movements Across Time, Space, And Generations

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 Brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering original insights into how aspirations shift over the course of life and how they are pursued in contexts of translocal mobility.
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Aging In A Changing World - Older New Zealanders And Contemporary Multiculturalism

by Molly George

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 Challenges simplified images of the old as racist, nostalgic and resistant to change by taking a deeper, more nuanced look at older people's complex relationship with the diversity and multiculturalism that has grown and developed around them.
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Changes In Care - Aging, Migration, And Social Class In West Africa

by Cati Coe

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 By examining emergent discourses and practices of aging in Ghana, Changes in Care makes an innovative argument about the uneven and fragile processes by which some social change occurs.
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Embracing Age - How Catholic Nuns Became Models Of Aging Well

by Anna I. Corwin

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 Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well examines a community of individuals whose aging trajectories contrast mainstream American experiences. In mainstream American society, aging is presented as a "problem," a state to be avoided as long as possible, a state that threatens one’s ability to maintain independence, autonomy, control over one’s surroundings. Aging "well" (or avoiding aging) has become a twenty-first century American preoccupation. Embracing Age provides a window into the everyday lives of American Catholic nuns who experience longevity and remarkable health and well-being at the end of life. Catholic nuns aren’t only healthier in older age, they are healthier because they practice a culture of acceptance and grace around aging. Embracing Age demonstrates how aging in the convent becomes understood by the nuns to be a natural part of the life course, not one to be feared or avoided. Anna I. Corwin shows readers how Catholic nuns create a cultural community that provides a model for how to grow old, decline, and die that is both embedded in American culture and quite distinct from other American models. <a href="https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/26120146/corwin_instructor_guide_final.pdf">Instructor''s Guide is available at no cost</a> (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/26120146/corwin_instructor_guide_final.pdf). Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ <a href="https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/17185818/9781978822313.pdf">Download open access ebook here.</a>
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Growing Old In A New China - Transitions In Elder Care

by Rose K. Keimig

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 Offers an accessible exploration of changing care arrangements in China. Combining anthropological theory, ethnographic vignettes, and cultural and social history, the book sheds light on the growing movement from home-based to institutional elder care in urban China.
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Aging Nationally In Contemporary Poland - Memory, Kinship, And Personhood

by Jessica C. Robbins

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 Through intimate portrayals of a wide range of experiences of aging in Poland, Jessica C. Robbins shows that everyday practices of remembering and relatedness shape how older Poles come to be seen by themselves and by others as living worthy, valued lives.
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Linked Lives - Elder Care, Migration, And Kinship In Sri Lanka

by Michele Ruth Gamburd

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 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.
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Through Japanese Eyes - Thirty Years Of Studying Aging In America

by Yohko Tsuji

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 Through Japanese EyesÂ offers an ethnography of aging in America from a cross-cultural perspective based on a lengthy period of research. It illustrates how older Americans cope with the gap between the ideal (e.g., independence) and the real (e.g., needing assistance) of growing older, and the changes the author observed over thirty years of research.
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Gray Matters - Finding Meaning In The Stories Of Later Life

by Ellyn Lem

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 Aging is one of the most compelling issues today, with record numbers of seniors over sixty-five worldwide. Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life examines a diverse array of cultural works including films, literature, and even art that represent this time of life, often made by people who are seniors themselves.
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Successful Aging As A Contemporary Obsession - Global Perspectives

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 Explores how the successful aging movement is playing out across five continents. Contributors investigate a variety of people to offer a fresh look at a major cultural and public health movement of our time, questioning what has become for many a taken-for-granted goaluaging in a way that almost denies aging itself.
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Aging And Loss - Mourning And Maturity In Contemporary Japan

by Jason Danely

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 Based on nearly a decade of research, Aging and Loss examines how the landscape of aging is felt, understood, and embodied by older adults themselves. In detailed portraits, anthropologist Jason Danely delves into the everyday lives of older Japanese adults as they construct narratives through acts of reminiscence, social engagement and ritual practice, and reveals the pervasive cultural aesthetic of loss and of being a burden.
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Ending Ageism, Or How Not To Shoot Old People

by Margaret Morganroth Gullette

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 In Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People, award-winning writer and cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette raises urgent legal, economic, educational, esthetic, and ethical issues to show why anti-ageism should be the next social movement of our time.
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Transnational Aging And Reconfigurations Of Kin Work

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 Documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin relationships.
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Black Movements - Performance And Cultural Politics

by Soyica Diggs Colbert

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 Analyses how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. Through an exploration of the way that black movements create circuits connecting people across space and time, Colbert offers important interventions into performance, literary, diaspora, and American studies.
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Transnational Aging And Reconfigurations Of Kin Work

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 Documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin relationships.
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A View From Life'S Edge - Discovering What Really Matters With Older Women Across The Globe

by Corinne G. Dempsey

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A View From Life'S Edge - Discovering What Really Matters With Older Women Across The Globe

by Corinne G. Dempsey

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Dancing For Their Lives - The Pursuit Of Meaningful Aging In Urban China

by Claudia Huang

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God'S Waiting Room - Racial Reckoning At Life'S End

by Casey Golomski

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 A ghost story rich in mystery and life lessons, God's Waiting Room takes readers on a day-long tour of a tropical nursing home to hear stories of older white people and the younger Black nurses who care for them, showing how people formerly primed to be enemies find grace despite the odds.
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More-Than-Human Aging - Animals, Robots, And Care In Later Life

by Andrew Whitehouse e Cristina Douglas

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 Aging is not only reserved for humans. Similarly, how humans age is often a process in which other-than-humans â€" be it other species or technology â€" become entangled or carved out. The contributions to this edited volume open a conversation about how aging is always a hybrid, more-than-human process.
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Thinking While Black - Translating The Politics And Popular Culture Of A Rebel Generation

by Daniel Mcneil

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