Jason Danely
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Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession
Global Perspectives
Edited by Sarah Lamb; Epilogue by Susan Reynolds Whyte
Rutgers University Press
Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession exposes and complicates contemporary readings of successful aging, questioning and defamiliarizing Western visions of the place of old age in the life course. This volume brings fresh insight and international perspectives that expand our collective imagination about what it is to age, and, by extension, to live.
- Copyright year: 2017
Aging and Loss
Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan
By Jason Danely
Rutgers University Press
Based on nearly a decade of research, Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan examines how the landscape of aging is felt, understood, and embodied by older adults themselves. In detailed portraits, anthropologist Jason Danely delves into the everyday lives of older Japanese adults as they construct narratives through acts of reminiscence, social engagement, and ritual practice, and reveals the pervasive cultural aesthetic of loss and of being a burden.
- Copyright year: 2015
Difficult Attachments
Anxieties of Kinship and Care
Edited by Kathryn E. Goldfarb and Sandra Bamford
Rutgers University Press
Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. But, what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is characterized by neglect, violence, negative affect, or a lack of care? This edited volume, featuring slim and cutting-edge essays from a diverse group of anthropologists at different career stages, explores situations when kinship is experienced as difficult and ambivalent.
- Copyright year: 2025
Difficult Attachments
Anxieties of Kinship and Care
Edited by Kathryn E. Goldfarb and Sandra Bamford
Rutgers University Press
Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. But, what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is characterized by neglect, violence, negative affect, or a lack of care? This edited volume, featuring slim and cutting-edge essays from a diverse group of anthropologists at different career stages, explores situations when kinship is experienced as difficult and ambivalent.
- Copyright year: 2025
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