Iza Kavedzija Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan 9781512823738

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Автор: Iza Kavedzija
Название: Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan
ISBN: 9781512823738
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Социальная и культурная антропология, этнография

ISBN-10: 1512823732
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 216
Вес: 0.37 кг.
Дата издания: 19.07.2022
Серия: Contemporary ethnography
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 6 illus.
Размер: 228 x 153 x 23
Ключевые слова: Anthropology,Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
Подзаголовок: Tales from an aging japan
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Поставляется из: Англии
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What makes for a meaningful life? In the Japanese context, the concept of ikigai provides a clue. Translated as that which makes ones life worth living, ikigai has also come to mean that which gives a person happiness. In Japan, where the demographic cohort of elderly citizens is growing, and new modes of living and relationships are revising traditional multigenerational family structures, the elderly experience of ikigai is considered a public health concern. Without a relevant model for meaningful and joyful older age, the increasing older population of Japan must create new cultural forms that center the ikigai that comes from old age.
In Making Meaningful Lives, Iza Kaved?ija provides a rich anthropological account of the lives and concerns of older Japanese women and men. Grounded in years of ethnographic fieldwork at two community centers in Osaka, Kaved?ija offers an intimate narrative analysis of the existential concerns of her active, independent subjects. Alone and in groups, the elderly residents of these communities make sense of their lives and shifting ikigai with humor, conversation, and storytelling. They are as much providers as recipients of care, challenging common images of the elderly as frail and dependent, while illustrating a more complex argument: maintaining independence nevertheless requires cultivating multiple dependences on others. Making Meaningful Lives argues that an anthropology of the elderly is uniquely suited to examine the competing values of dependence and independence, sociality and isolation, intimacy and freedom, that people must balance throughout all of lifes stages.

Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan, Iza Kavedzija