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This fully revised Second Edition of Other Cultures, Elder Years is not only the textbook on the anthropology of aging, but also the most comprehensive, comparative study available on worldwide patterns of ageing. `Provides an excellent summary of secondary sources, avoiding extensive review of primary research, complicated theory, and methodological issues' - Clinical Gerontologist
Applying Anthropology: Culture, Health, and Aging
Applying Anthropology: Culture, Health, and Aging
Anthropology, like every other scientific discipline, has its pure (theoretical) and its applied (practical) interests. Just as medicine has its practitioners and its laboratory research people, anthropology has its scholars researching issues to seek knowledge of humankind for its own sake; other anthropology scholars use anthropological knowledge to solve social, medical, economic, educational, and political problems. The work of these applied anthropologists has proven to be of great value in dealing with a variety of problems in other countries and in the United States when ethnic populations are involved, and in providing answers to difficult problems when services to the aged are concerned. In this chapter we focus on the importance of understanding culture ...
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