This text follows men and women from a rural American community as they approach and experience the first years of retirement. The author focuses on the efforts people make to find meaning in a stage of life American culture often views in a confused or disdainful way. In conversations and stories, 13 men and 13 women demonstrate a deep commitment to defining their own retirement. They bring to their mature years a diversity of backgrounds, interests and responsibilities: they include former teachers, librarians, doctors, farmers, lawyers, bankers, mail carriers and secretaries. Some are...
This text follows men and women from a rural American community as they approach and experience the first years of retirement. The author focuses on t...
The topic of retirement becomes increasingly compelling as the U.S. population ages. It's easy to find books about how to plan financially for those years after careers end, but Breaking the Watch focuses on the many ways of creating a life, not just making a living, as a retired person.This book follows women and men from a rural American community as they approach and experience the first years of retirement. Joel Savishinsky focuses on the efforts people make to find meaning in a stage of life American culture often views in a confused or disdainful way.In conversations and stories, 13 men...
The topic of retirement becomes increasingly compelling as the U.S. population ages. It's easy to find books about how to plan financially for those y...
In this volume composed of a number of cross-cultural case studies in deviance, the authors show how an anthropological comparative study can shed new light on the subject. Anthropologists have tended to avoid studying deviance as a phenomena in and of itself, concentrating instead on particular sorts of deviance such as sorcery, alcoholism, and suicide. Anthropology's total immersion in the culture being studied is well suited to a fuller understanding of deviance. An anthropology of deviance is likely to create new models that challenge many of the sociological assumptions currently used...
In this volume composed of a number of cross-cultural case studies in deviance, the authors show how an anthropological comparative study can shed ...
A lively account of life in a decent American nursing home, this book offers an in-depth look at American geriatric facilities. Using six years of anthropological research, Joel Savishinsky analyzes the lives and experiences of residents, staff members, and volunteers. He addresses the contradictory attitudes American society has shown towards geriatric facilities and the aging process itself: the tensions between caring and curing, morality and mortality, privacy and supervision, home and institution, and selfishness and altruism.
Savishinsky portrays the strengths and weaknesses of...
A lively account of life in a decent American nursing home, this book offers an in-depth look at American geriatric facilities. Using six years of ...
Douglas Raybeck Joel S. Savishinsky Morris Freilich
In this volume composed of a number of cross-cultural case studies in deviance, the authors show how an anthropological comparative study can shed new light on the subject. Anthropologists have tended to avoid studying deviance as a phenomena in and of itself, concentrating instead on particular sorts of deviance such as sorcery, alcoholism, and suicide. Anthropology's total immersion in the culture being studied is well suited to a fuller understanding of deviance. An anthropology of deviance is likely to create new models that challenge many of the sociological assumptions currently used...
In this volume composed of a number of cross-cultural case studies in deviance, the authors show how an anthropological comparative study can shed ...
