Through Japanese Eyes - Thirty Years of Studying Aging in America

Through Japanese Eyes offers an ethnography of aging in America from a cross-cultural perspective based on a lengthy period of research. It illustrates how older Americans cope with the gap between the ideal (e.g., independence) and the real (e.g., needing assistance) of growing older, and the changes the author observed over thirty years of research. 
 

List of contents

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Preface

Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Japanese Names

Introduction: Anthropology, Cultural Values, and Aging

1           Activities as Value at Lake District Senior Center

2           Elders Supporting Each Other to Help Themselves

3          Networking at Lake District Senior Center

4          Post-Retirement Housing and Living Arrangements

5          Who Supports Older Americans?: Families, Self, and Other Sources

6          Temporal Complexity in Older Americans' Lives

7          Changes and Continuities Over Thirty Years of Research

Conclusion: Challenges and Hopes in the New Frontier of Aging

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

 

About the author

YOHKO TSUJI is an adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. 

Product details

• Authors: Yohko Tsuji
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.2020
• EAN: 9781978819559
• ISBN: 978-1-978819-55-9
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Global Perspectives on Aging
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology