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• ISBN: 0804710724
• ISBN: 9780804710725
• ISBN: 0804711534
• ISBN: 9780804711531
• Physical Description: xxi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
• Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1981.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Pamela T. Amoss and Stevan Harrell -- Evolutionary perspectives on human aging / Kenneth M. Weiss -- "Nepotists" and "altruists" / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy -- "The old people give you life" / Megan Biesele and Nancy Howell -- Old age among the Chipewyan / Henry S. Sharp -- The elderly Asmat of New Guinea / Peter W. Van Arsdale -- Old age in Gwembe District, Zambia / Elizabeth Colson and Thayer Scudder -- Respected elder or old person / James D. Nason -- Growing in respect / N. Nazif Shahrani -- Growing old in rural Taiwan / Stevan Harrell -- Old age in a south Indian village / Paul G. Hiebert -- Coast Salish elders / Pamela T. Amoss.

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Subject:

Older people.
Older people > Cross-cultural studies.
Aged.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Personnes âgées.
Personnes âgées > Études transculturelles.
Older people.
Alter, ...
Älterer Mensch
Kulturvergleich
Veroudering (biologie, psychologie)
Alter.

Genre:

Funktionaler Vergleich.
Cross-cultural studies.