Population Aging as the Social Body in Representation and Real Life
This article uses three levels of body analysis as presented by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock to compare old age as a construct in population aging discourse with research on lived experience of people aging in the United States and Ghana. I first describe how demographers construct social...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2013-09-01
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Series: | Anthropology & Aging |
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Online Access: | http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/article/view/11 |