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Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US
Practices and Policies
Inbunden, 2000
2578 kr
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In an era of changing demographics and values, this volume provides a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective on the question of who cares for and about the elderly. The contributors reflect on research studies, experimental programmes and personal experience in Japan and the United States …
Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US
Practices and Policies
Häftad, 2012
742 kr
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In an era of changing demographics and values, this volume provides a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective on the question of who cares for and about the elderly. The contributors reflect on research studies, experimental programmes and personal experience in Japan and the United States …
Capturing Contemporary Japan
Differentiation and Uncertainty
Av Satsuki Kawano, Satsuki Kawano m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
627 kr
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What are people's life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to under- standing Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively reveal a questioning of middle-class ideals once considered the essence of …
Capturing Contemporary Japan
Differentiation and Uncertainty
Av Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
272 kr
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What are people's life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to under- standing Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively reveal a questioning of middle-class ideals once considered the essence of …
Family Change and the Life Course in Japan
Häftad, 2010
123 kr
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This book provides a valuable introduction to historical and sociological studies of family change in Japan. The author discusses the organization and assumptions of the academic disciplines, introduces resources for cross-cultural research on family change, and summarizes research results in areas …
Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US
Practices and Policies
E-bok, 2013
830 kr
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In an era of changing demographics and values, this volume provides a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective on the question of who cares for and about the elderly. The contributors reflect on research studies, experimental programmes and personal experience in Japan and the United States …
Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US
Practices and Policies
E-bok, 2013
849 kr
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In an era of changing demographics and values, this volume provides a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective on the question of who cares for and about the elderly. The contributors reflect on research studies, experimental programmes and personal experience in Japan and the United States …
Lives in Motion
Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan
Häftad, 2010
283 kr
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From the deathbed to the commuter railway station, from the marriage market to the fish market, from the baseball field to the grave, this volume explores the diversity of contemporary Japanese society by studying how people "compose" their families, their communities, and their own identities. …
Death in the Early Twenty-first Century
Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites
Av Sébastien Penmellen Boret, Susan Orpett Long m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1530 kr
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Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing patterns of social relationships, …
Death in the Early Twenty-first Century
Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites
Av Sergei Kan, Susan Orpett Long m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
1948 kr
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Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing patterns of social relationships, …
Death in the Early Twenty-first Century
Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites
Av Sébastien Penmellen Boret, Susan Orpett Long m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
1530 kr
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Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing patterns of social relationships, …
Final Days
Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life
Häftad, 2005
342 kr
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Long (anthropology, John Carroll U., Cleveland) spent over a decade investigating the social and cultural nature of end-of-life decisions in Japan, the nation with the world's longest life expectancies and a distinctly postindustrial pattern of causes of death. Her ethnography of the final days of …
