Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note on Conventions; Chapter 1. Subjects of Care; Chapter 2. Aging Communities; Chapter 3. Mutual Help; Chapter 4. Living Well Together; Chapter 5. A Life in a Story; Chapter 6. Intimacy and Independence; Chapter 7. Life as a Path; Chapter 8. Meaningful Life Inside and Outside the Story; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments
Summary
Based on ethnographic fieldwork at two community centers in Osaka, Japan, Making Meaningful Lives provides an intimate anthropological account of the existential concerns of elderly Japanese women and men
