Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan - Couverture souple

Danely, Jason

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813565162 ISBN 13 : 9780813565163

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2015

Synopsis

By 2030, over 30% of the Japanese population will be 65 or older, foreshadowing the demographic changes occurring elsewhere in Asia and around the world. What can we learn from a study of the aging population of Japan and how can these findings inform a path forward for the elderly, their families, and for policy makers?
Based on nearly a decade of research, Aging and Loss 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. Through first-hand accounts of rituals in homes, cemeteries, and religious centers, Danely argues that what he calls the self-in-suspense can lead to the emergence of creative participation in an economy of care. In everyday rituals for the spirits, older adults exercise agency and reinterpret concerns of social abandonment within a meaningful cultural narrative and, by reimagining themselves and their place in the family through these rituals, older adults in Japan challenge popular attitudes about eldercare. Danely's discussion of health and long-term care policy, and community welfare organizations, reveal a complex picture of Japan's aging society.

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À propos de l'auteur

JASON DANELY earned a bachelor's in comparative religion from Western Michigan University and a PhD in anthropology from the University of California, San Diego. He is recipient of an IIE Fulbright Research Grant, the Melford E. Spiro Dissertation Award, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center on Age and Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. He is co-editor, with Caitrin Lynch, of Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course (2013, Berghahn Books) and editor-in-chief of Anthropology and Aging. He is currently a senior lecturer of anthropology at Oxford Brookes University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813565162
• ISBN 13: 9780813565163
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 229
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