ISBN:
978-1-59221-495-2
,
1-59221-495-9
,
1-59221-494-0
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 322 Seiten
,
Tabelle
Edition:
First printing
Keywords:
Ägypten Äthiopien
;
Kenia
;
Malawi
;
Mali
;
Nigeria
;
Tansania
;
Südafrika
;
Brasilien
;
Gerontokratie
;
Alter
;
Kultur und Gesellschaft
;
Identität
;
Konflikt, sozialer
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Soziales Leben
;
Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen
Abstract:
"Rethinking Age in Africa" explores an old cultural problem in new ways: how do we deal with ageing within societies in which the young are so numerous? How do we deal with age changes and the life cycle in contemporary Africa? While biology has suggested that there is a common universal way of dealing with ageing, African societies show an enormous diversity, an extraordinary resilience and an ever-growing adaptation to social change and difficulties. Continuing the ethnographic and historical explorations previously addressed in "The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy" (AWP 1998) distinguished contributors to this volume explore the social paradigm of age in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa and among African communities in Brazil.
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