| Description |
344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cornell paperbacks |
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Cornell paperbacks.
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| Contents |
The primates / Phyllis Dolhinow -- Theoretical dimensions of a focus on age in physical anthropology / Cynthia M. Beall -- Age, generation, and social structure / Meyer Fortes -- Age and kinship / David Maybury-Lewis -- Age in the Fortesian coordinates / Eugene Hammel -- Age in cultural economics / Rhoda Halperin -- Age and social change / Nancy Foner -- Age and linguistic change / Penelope Eckert -- Age and culture as theory / Ronald Cohen -- "It's just old age" : old age as a diagnosis in American and Chinese medicine / Andrea Sankar -- Chronology, category, and ritual / Ákos Östör -- Rites and signs of ripening / Barbara Myerhoff |
| Analysis |
Man Ageing Social aspects |
| Notes |
Cover title: Age & anthropological theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Aging.
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Anthropology -- Philosophy.
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Older people.
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Aged.
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Aging.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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| Author |
Keith, Jennie.
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Kertzer, David I., 1948-
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| LC no. |
83021060 |
| ISBN |
0801415675 (hard : alk. paper) |
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0801492580 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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