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Life's Career-Aging Cultural Variations on Growing Old [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Social Science)
  • ISBN-10:  080396000X
  • ISBN-10:  080396000X
  • ISBN-13:  9780803960008
  • ISBN-13:  9780803960008
  • Publisher:  SAGE Publications, Inc
  • Publisher:  SAGE Publications, Inc
  • Pages:  249
  • Pages:  249
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-1979
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-1979
  • SKU:  080396000X-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  080396000X-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100820667
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'The book could open up a fruitful controversy in social gerontology and should become part of the library of every social gerontologist' -- Contemporary Sociology

'A unique contribution to cross-cultural studies in aging' -- Choice

'Worthwhile reading for any human service professional dealing with the aged' -- Social Work'The book could open up a fruitful controversy in social gerontology and should become part of the library of every social gerontologist' -- Contemporary Sociology

'A unique contribution to cross-cultural studies in aging' -- Choice

'Worthwhile reading for any human service professional dealing with the aged' -- Social WorkIntroduction: Aging and the Aged in Cultural Perspective - Andrei Simic
Old Age in a Life-Term Social Arena: Some Chagga of Kilimanjaro in 1974 - Sally Folk Moore
Winners and Losers: Aging Yugoslavs in a Changing World - Andrei Simic
Youth and Changing in Central Mexico: One Day in the Life of Four Families of Migrants - Carlos G Vélez
A Symbol Perfected in Death: Continuity and Ritual in the Life and Death of an Elderly Jew - Barbara G Myerhoff
El Senior Citizens Club: The Older Mexican-American in the Voluntary Association - José Cuellar
Conclusion - Andrei Simic and Barbara Myerhoff

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