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African gerontology
Age Graded Society
Alexis B. Tengan
Ancestral Shrine
Andreas Sagner
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Ayanda Sotshongaye
Birth Root
Bovine Body
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Cattle Enclosure
Cattle Post
cross-cultural ageing research
cultural narratives ageing
dementia in Africa
Els Van Dongen
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ethnographic fieldwork
Human Sciences Research Council
In-married Women
Intergenerational Discourse
intergenerational relations
Kakamega Districts
Life's Daily Movements
Lineage Founder
Maria G. Cattell
Milch Cows
Monica Ferreira
Painful Self-disclosure
Played Back
Port Nolloth
RenEvisch
Robin Oakley
Samia North
seniority social structures
Sinfree Makoni
Sjaak Van Der Geest
Social Reproduction
Southern African Journal
Stella Nyanchama Okemwa
Steven Van Wolputte
Successive Age Cohorts
Valerie MLler
Van Der Geest
Virginity Examinations
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754630043
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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African gerontology has expanded dramatically as a discipline with population ageing and its consequences for societies and for individual experiences of ageing becoming prominent issues all over the continent. This volume therefore brings together some of the most prolific and skilful researchers working on ageing in Africa today. The book is based on sociolinguistic and anthropological research conducted in different regions of Southern Africa, West and East Africa, and in different types of communities, rural, urban and nomadic. Hence the book is able to adopt a pan-African slant to issues about ageing. The data and their interpretation are characterized by the richness, typicity and authenticity of both narratives and ethnographical fieldwork. Because the authors aim to present insider views and experiences of ageing in Africa from these diverse contexts, the book is able to distil common and variable aspects of ageing in Africa. These permit a formulation of critical models of ageing which are sensitive to the elderly person’s experience and to the dynamics of the historical contexts in which are sensitive to the elderly person’s experience and to the dynamics of the historical contexts in which elderly persons have lived. Critical models of ageing appear to shed a new light on the social change that affects all of us today. (e.g. post-apartheid, post-colonialism). The volume includes an introduction to the study of ageing, which proposes a conceptual apparatus that is transdisciplinary and cross-cultural. It also includes a concluding chapter sketching future directions of research and policy. The volume is divided into three sections: (1) Narratives and the construction of elderliness; (2) Cross-cultural perspectives on ageing and seniority; and (3) Crises and strategies of elderhood. The contributions employ a number of methodological approaches, ranging from discursive and literary analyses, to anthropological studies. The chapters in
Sinfree Makoni, Long Island University, New York, USA Koen Stroeken, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
