The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging Life Course and Personal Destiny in Niger |
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| Author:
| Rasmussen, Susan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87580-624-2 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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| Imprint: | Northern Illinois University Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $25.95 |
Book Description:
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To what degree does culture influence our concepts of age and aging? In our own culture, chronology is crucial to perceptions of the aging process. Our expectations for a twenty-year-old, for example, are different from those we have for a sixty-year-old. So entrenched are our ideas about aging that the notion of measuring age in ways other...
To what degree does culture influence our concepts of age and aging? In our own culture, chronology is crucial to perceptions of the aging process. Our expectations for a twenty-year-old, for example, are different from those we have for a sixty-year-old. So entrenched are our ideas about aging that the notion of measuring age in ways other...