Welcome to Middle Age!: (And Other Cultural Fictions) - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0226756076 ISBN 13 : 9780226756073

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1998

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Many of us believe we recognize the symptoms of middle age: lower back pain, mortgages, and an aversion to loud late-night activities. This particular construction of midlife, most often rendered in chronological, biological, and medical terms, has become an accepted reality to European-Americans and has recently spread to such non-Western capitals as Tokyo and New Delhi. Welcome to Middle Age! (And Other Cultural Fictions) explores the significance of this pervasive cultural representation alongside the alternative "fictions" that represent the life course in other regions of the world where middle age does not exist. In this volume, anthropologists, behavioral scientists, and historians explore topics ranging from the Western ideology of "midlife decline" to cultural representations of mature adulthood that operate without the category of middle age. The result is a fascinating, panoramic collection that explores the myths surrounding and the representations of mature adulthood and of those years in the life span from thirty to seventy.

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• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0226756076
• ISBN 13: 9780226756073
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Shweder Richard A.