Population Aging as the Social Body in Representation and Real Life

Population Aging as the Social Body in Representation and Real Life

This article uses three levels of body analysis as presented by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock to compare old age as a construct in population aging discourse with research on lived experience of people aging in the United States and Ghana. I first describe how demographers construct social...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur:	Alexandra Crampton
Fformat:	Erthygl
Iaith:	English
Cyhoeddwyd:	University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2013-09-01
Cyfres:	Anthropology & Aging
Pynciau:	Ghana United States global intervention population aging social body cross-cultural studies
Mynediad Ar-lein:	http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/article/view/11

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