ISBN:
9781351960236
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (306 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Stroeken, Koen Ageing in Africa : Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches
DDC:
305.26096
Keywords:
Language and culture
Abstract:
"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Table of Contents" -- "List of Contributors" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Introduction: Towards Transdisciplinary Studies on Ageing in Africa" -- "Part I: Narratives and the Construction of Elderliness" -- "1 Towards a Cultural and Linguistic Construction of Late-life Dementia in an Urban African Population" -- "2 Identity Management and Old Age Construction among Xhosa-speakers in Urban South Africa: Complaint Discourse Revisited" -- "3 Imprints of History and Economy across the Life Course of an Elderly Namaqualander 1920-1996" -- "Part II: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Ageing and Seniority" -- "4 From Shrub to Log: The Ancestral Dimension of Elderhood among Sukuma in Tanzania" -- "5 Coming of Age and Authority: Milk as a Source of Power in Himbaland, Northem Namibia" -- "6 Social Categories and Seniority in a House-based Society" -- "Part III: Crises and Strategies of Elderhood" -- "7 Holding Up the Sky: Gender, Age and Work among the Abaluyia of Kenya" -- "8 Rhetoric of Remembrance: Privileged Authority of Elders and the Contested Gradations of Seniority" -- "9 'They Don't Listen': Contemporary Respect Relations between Zulu Grandmothers and Grandchildren" -- "10 The Toilet: Dignity, Privacy and Care of Elderly People in Kwahu, Ghana" -- "11 'They Talk to Us Like Children': Language and Intergenerational Discourse in First-time Encounters in an African Township" -- "12 Skeletons of the Past, Flesh and Blood of the Present: Remembrance and Older People in a South African Context" -- "Epilogue: African Gerontology: Critical Models, Future Directions" -- "Dedication
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