{"title":"The Anthropologist as Caregiving Daughter: Lessons from the World of the Frail Elderly","authors":"L. Margolies","doi":"10.1080/19325611003800978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325611003800978","url":null,"abstract":"My Mother's Hip: Lessons from the World of Eldercare (Temple University Press, 2004) is based on both my mother's experiences in navigating the healthcare system after suffering a double hip fracture and mine as her principal caregiver. What happens when an anthropologist who studies global aging inadvertently falls into the role of caregiver? Much like a physician who finds himself in an exotic world when becoming a patient, the social scientist–caregiver immediately begins to deconstruct the systemic flaws from a professional perspective. My Mother's Hip opened the Pandora's box of how we care for an aging society in the context of a fragmented medical system. We who write such books see a glaring need to inform the public about critical medical issues that inevitably crop up in the course of eldercare. Parallel to the medical story is the story of how an author produces a trade book about a problematical topic and promotes it without alienating the popular audience.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124186192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Time Not There and Time Not Theirs: Temporality in Retirement Migration to Spain","authors":"C. Oliver","doi":"10.1080/19325611003767656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325611003767656","url":null,"abstract":"Retirement migrants in Spain claim a particular vision of time as finally “theirs.” It is a time for living in the present and contrasts with their previous time-bound working lives. This liminal temporality, which seems to diminish the significance of aging, is disrupted, however, by the high visibility of aging and death in such a community. Using an ethnographic approach, the article explores the societal and individual negotiation of retired migrants' arrivals and departures from the social scene as pertinent moments to interrogate these matters. These reveal that migrants' present-focused temporality is yet wholly informed by subtle awareness of future-time as “not there.”","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128992474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Apple Man","authors":"D. Fauri","doi":"10.1080/19325611003767672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325611003767672","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126143758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affective Teaching and Poetry","authors":"M. Wolf","doi":"10.1080/19325611003767706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325611003767706","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130950758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking the Generation Gap: Age and Agency in Middle-Class Kolkata","authors":"Sarah Lamb","doi":"10.1080/19325611003767698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325611003767698","url":null,"abstract":"The popular and scholarly generation gap idiom implies that social change is instigated by the young while the old remain fixed in time and culture. In fact, it is inadequate to think of the young as the primary locus of social change. By examining the lives of older Indians from Kolkata who moved out of extended family homes and into elder residences and nuclear-family-style apartments, I learned that prevalent models of generation and social change fail to capture the complexity of the lives and perspectives of the older generation and the workings of social-cultural transformation.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128118572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustaining a Social Movement: Gray Panther Ideology and Tactics","authors":"R. Sanjek","doi":"10.1080/19325611003800986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325611003800986","url":null,"abstract":"The Gray Panthers, formed in 1970, are an intergenerational social movement focused on peace, health care, housing, income adequacy, and social justice. Despite the loss of founder Maggie Kuhn in 1995, and a diminished membership since its peak in the 1980s, the Gray Panthers continue today. Key elements in this organizational success are their distinctive ideology and tactics. Here their concept of “the person” and their “outrageous” activist techniques are analyzed using published and archival Gray Panther materials and drawing on the author's involvement as active member during 1977–1978, 1980–1987, and 2004–2010, and his perspective as an anthropologist and historian.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122316699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aging, Agency, and Gwembe Tonga Getting By","authors":"L. Cliggett","doi":"10.1080/19325611003767664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325611003767664","url":null,"abstract":"Using a political ecology framework to explore the gendered nature of extended family support networks for the elderly, this article reveals the ways that older women and men negotiate their social and material worlds in the context of extreme ecological and economic conditions. The historical processes that shape the social and material worlds in which these elders move include development induced resettlement, postcolonial politics and economics, and catastrophic chronic illness and mortality of children. Drawing from ethnographic research from 1994 through 2008, the article explores how people living in economically and ecologically dire circumstances manage their social and material worlds to the best of their ability.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114830684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art, Aging, and Abandonment in Japan","authors":"Jason Danely","doi":"10.1080/19325610903419350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903419350","url":null,"abstract":"Representations of aging in Japanese art not only influence how older adults construct their identity in late life, but the ethical implications of this identification. This article concentrates on one representation of aging in Japanese art, the crone of Obasuteyama, as she has appeared in various forms throughout centuries of Japanese folklore, literature, theater, and film. This article argues that although the Obasuteyama story addresses the moral questions surrounding the fear of abandonment in old age, its multiple artistic interpretations also provide older adults with different, and sometimes contradictory cultural models to understand and cope with this fear. Ethnographic observations and interview material concerning aging and abandonment in the lives of present-day Japanese adults are used to show how seemingly different attitudes toward aging can be linked to a shared narrative of abandonment.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115256976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Journey into Spring","authors":"Menalcus Lankford","doi":"10.1080/19325610903521627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903521627","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125171741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visions of Aging","authors":"A. Basting","doi":"10.1080/19325610903551558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903551558","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131073515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}