Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka | Agenda Bookshop Skip to content
Selected Colleen Hoover Books at €9.99c | In-store & Online
Selected Colleen Hoover Books at €9.99c | In-store & Online
A01=Michele Ruth Gamburd
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Michele Ruth Gamburd
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HRE
Category=JFFN
Category=JHMC
Category=JKSG
Category=MJX
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
softlaunch

Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka

English

By (author): Michele Ruth Gamburd

When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it. The care work that grandparents do for grandchildren allows labor migration and contributes to the overall well-being of the extended family. The book considers the efforts migrant workers make to build and buy houses and the ways those rooms and walls constrain social activities. It outlines the strategies elders employ to age in place, and the alternatives they face in local old folks homes. Based on ethnographic work done over a decade, Michele Gamburd shows how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world. See more
Current price €43.19
Original price €47.99
Save 10%
A01=Michele Ruth GamburdAge Group_UncategorizedAuthor_Michele Ruth Gamburdautomatic-updateCategory1=Non-FictionCategory=HRECategory=JFFNCategory=JHMCCategory=JKSGCategory=MJXCOP=United StatesDelivery_Delivery within 10-20 working daysLanguage_EnglishPA=AvailablePrice_€20 to €50PS=Activesoftlaunch
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Product Details
  • Weight: 3g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Nov 2020
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781978815308

About Michele Ruth Gamburd

MICHELE RUTH GAMBURD is professor of anthropology at Portland State University Oregon.

Customer Reviews

Be the first to write a review
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue we'll assume that you are understand this. Learn more
Accept