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Informationen zum Autor JASON DANELY earned a bachelor's in comparative religion from Western Michigan University and a PhD in anthropology from the University of California, San Diego. He is recipient of an IIE Fulbright Research Grant, the Melford E. Spiro Dissertation Award, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center on Age and Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. He is co-editor, with Caitrin Lynch, of Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course (2013, Berghahn Books) and editor-in-chief of Anthropology and Aging. He is currently a senior lecturer of anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. Klappentext Based on nearly a decade of research, Aging and Loss examines how the landscape of aging is felt, understood, and embodied by older adults themselves. In detailed portraits, anthropologist Jason Danely delves into the everyday lives of older Japanese adults as they construct narratives through acts of reminiscence, social engagement and ritual practice, and reveals the pervasive cultural aesthetic of loss and of being a burden. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Loss 1 Loss, Abandonment, and Aesthetics 2 The Weight of Loss: Experiencing Aging and Grief Part II: Mourning 3 Landscapes of Mourning: Constructing Nature and Kinship 4 Temporalities of Loss: Transience and Yielding 5 Passing it on: Circulating Aging Narratives Part III: Abandonment and Care 6 Aesthetics of Failed Subjectivity Part IV: Hope 7 Care and Recognition: Encountering the Other World 8 The Heart of Aging: An Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
