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Finding the Familiar in Rural America: How a Rural Lifestyle Helps Older Karen Adapt to Life in the United States 在美国农村找到熟悉的东西:农村生活方式如何帮助老凯伦适应美国的生活

Anthropology & Aging Pub Date : 2023-06-14 DOI: 10.5195/aa.2023.399

D. Gilhooly, Mayuri Gilhooly

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Who Wants to Have an Aged Self If to Age Is So Bad? Ageless and Aged Selves as Cultural Constructs 如果变老这么糟糕，谁还想变老呢?作为文化建构的不老自我和老年自我

Anthropology & Aging Pub Date : 2023-06-14 DOI: 10.5195/aa.2023.479

Sarah Lamb

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What does Aging Mean? Repertoires and Embodied Sensoria in Person-Making 衰老意味着什么?“人造”中的表现与具身感

Anthropology & Aging Pub Date : 2023-06-14 DOI: 10.5195/aa.2023.476

Cati Coe

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The Effects of Social-Withdrawal Characteristics Among Older Academics: An Indonesian Case Study 老年学者社会退缩特征的影响:印尼个案研究

Anthropology & Aging Pub Date : 2023-06-14 DOI: 10.5195/aa.2023.444

A. P. Ramadhan, Suzyrman Sibly

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Commentary: Visual/Multimodal Anthropology of Aging, Care and the Life Course: Notes on an Emergent Field 评论:视觉/多模态老龄化人类学，护理和生命历程:一个新兴领域的笔记

Anthropology & Aging Pub Date : 2023-06-14 DOI: 10.5195/aa.2023.426

Barbara Pieta, J. Sokolovsky

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Book Review: Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and community in Milan and Beyond. 书评:意大利城市智能手机的老龄化:米兰及其他地区的护理和社区。

Anthropology & Aging Pub Date : 2023-06-14 DOI: 10.5195/aa.2023.473

I. Kretser

引用次数: 2

Introduction: Care as Critique and Debating The Ageless Self 导言:作为批判的关怀与永恒自我的辩论

Anthropology & Aging Pub Date : 2023-06-14 DOI: 10.5195/aa.2023.482

C. Verbruggen