Aging and Its Transformations
Moving Toward Death in Pacific Societies
Published on 1. January 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-8229-5477-4 (ISBN)
Description
Studies the changing social status of ageing members of the community in Pacific societies, cultural understandings of the processes of life and death, relationships between the living, the dying and the dead and strategies employed by individuals as they mature, gain adult status, age and die.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh PA
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8229-5477-4 (9780822954774)
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Content
Introduction - Linking Concepts Ageing and Gender, Ageing and Death, Dorothy Ayers Counts, David R. Counts; Koro and Kuia - Ageing and Gender Among the Maori of New Zealand, Karen P. Sinclair; Gender Complementarity, Ageing and Reproduction Among New Zealand Pakeha Women, Michele D. Dominy; Kinship, Gender, and Ageing on Pulap, Caroline Islands, Juliana Flinn; Ko'oua: Ageing in the Marquesas Islands, John Kirkpatrick; Conceptions of Maturing and Dying in the `Middle of Heaven', Laurence Marshall Carucci; I'm Not Dead Yet! Ageing and Death - Process and Experience in Kaliai, Dorothy Ayers Counts, David R. Counts; Gender, Ageing, and Dying in an Egalitarian Society, Maria Lepowsky; Passing Away and Loss of Life - Ageing and Death Among the Managalase of Papua New Guinea, William H. McKellin; Femsep's Last Garden - A Telefol Response to Mortality, Dan Jorgensen; Death by Sorcery - The Social Dynamics of Dying in Bariai, West New Britain, Naomi M. Scaletta; Ageing and Dying in Pacific Societies - Implications for Theory in Social Gerontology, Victor W. Marshall.