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Other Cultures, Elder Years (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Other Cultures, Elder Years (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Holmes and Holmes have revised their 1983 book, and it remains a
good supplement for an undergraduate gerontology course or
anthropology course. It is written at a readable level, each
chapter has a clear summary. . . . It provides an excellent summary
of secondary sources, avoiding extensive review of primary
research, complicated theory, and methodological issues. --Clinical
Gerontologist Hailed as "extremely well organized, balanced, and
impartial" in its first edition by The Gerontologist, Other
Cultures, Elder Years is once again available in a fully revamped
second edition. This new edition provides a comprehensive,
comparative viewpoint on our knowledge about worldwide patterns of
aging. It addresses everything from demographic patterns to family
relations, from perceptions of the life cycle to the impact of
modernization on the aged. Replete with summaries of crucial
studies from various parts of the world, Other Cultures, Elder
Years also offers three extended case descriptions of Inuit,
Samoan, and white American aged as well as an examination of aging
patterns among major American ethnic groups. Among the other
subjects the text addresses are cultural perspectives in health
care, the future of aging in America, and creativity and the life
cycle. Other Cultures, Elder Years is the key text available for
use by anyone teaching courses on aging and culture. "I found the
current [book] a significant improvement over the first edition. .
. . It remains to be the only usable text in the anthropology of
aging available. I see the audiences for the book as instructors
for the following courses: Anthropology of Aging, Sociology of
Aging, and general social gerontology courses. I have used this
book in past Anthropology of Aging courses and would do so again."
--Jay Sokolovsky, University of Maryland, Baltimore County "This
book does a truly artful job of organizing and presenting the
complex diversity of human experience related to aging and cultural
influence. . . . This book offers an implicit biocultural
laboratory to the reader: the biologic universal of human aging is
shaped by the prism of cultural influence. The reader is guided
through the evolutionary history of aging among anthropoid
primates, to hominids, to Homo sapiens sapiens, who are then
examined from cultural perspectives found around the globe. The
effect is one of inquiry, search, synthesis, and, ultimately, a
confrontation with our inner selves as we negotiate the inexorable
march toward our ultimate destiny." --J. Neil Henderson, Suncoast
Gerontology Center, University of South Florida
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