Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society

A demographic and ethnographic exploration of how the aging Japanese society is affecting the family.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

John W. Traphagan is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and also Secretary General of the Japan Anthropology Workshop. He is the author of Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan and the coeditor of Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan (with Akiko Hashimoto); Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in Practice (with Christopher S. Thompson); and Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society (with John Knight), all published by SUNY Press.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: John Knight (Herausgeber), John W Traphagan (Herausgeber), John W. Traphagan (Herausgeber), Traphagan John W. (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.01.2003
• EAN: 9780791456507
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-5650-7
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 408 g
• Serien: Suny Series in Japan in Transi; SUNY series in Aging and Culture; SUNY series in Japan in Transition
• Themen: Ratgeber > Sport > Ballsport; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Age groups: the elderly, Social and cultural anthropology, Population & demography, Population and Demography