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"An American anthropologist, Jennie Keith . . . went to live for twelve months in a French housing scheme for retired people and as a participant observer conducted a study in community creation. This book, in which she describes and analyses her experience, is a delight. It is scholarly and draws on a wide range of studies of similar residences and other collectives; it is also vivid, funny, sad and entertaining." Marie Borland, "British Journal of Social Work
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This is the first book in anthropology to provide strategies for the collection of qualitative and comparative data about aging, representing state-of-the-art techniques including cross-cultural and life-cyle studies of aging. Covering ethnic communities in the U.S. as well as other countries, New Methods for Old-Age Research is an indispensable resource and critical guide to research methods for professionals and students of gerontology, anthropology, and the social sciences in general.