Aging and its transformations : moving toward death in Pacific societies

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Aging and its transformations : moving toward death in Pacific societies

Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R. Counts, editors

(ASAO monograph, no. 10)

University of Pittsburgh Press, [1992] c1985

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Originally published: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1985. (ASAO monograph ; no. 10)

Bibliography: p. [275]-313

Includes index

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Description

Studies the changing social status of ageing members of the community in Pacific societies, cultural understandings of the processes of life and death, relationships between the living, the dying and the dead and strategies employed by individuals as they mature, gain adult status, age and die.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction - Linking Concepts Ageing and Gender, Ageing and Death, Dorothy Ayers Counts, David R. Counts
  • Koro and Kuia - Ageing and Gender Among the Maori of New Zealand, Karen P. Sinclair
  • Gender Complementarity, Ageing and Reproduction Among New Zealand Pakeha Women, Michele D. Dominy
  • Kinship, Gender, and Ageing on Pulap, Caroline Islands, Juliana Flinn
  • Ko'oua: Ageing in the Marquesas Islands, John Kirkpatrick
  • Conceptions of Maturing and Dying in the `Middle of Heaven', Laurence Marshall Carucci
  • I'm Not Dead Yet! Ageing and Death - Process and Experience in Kaliai, Dorothy Ayers Counts, David R. Counts
  • Gender, Ageing, and Dying in an Egalitarian Society, Maria Lepowsky
  • Passing Away and Loss of Life - Ageing and Death Among the Managalase of Papua New Guinea, William H. McKellin
  • Femsep's Last Garden - A Telefol Response to Mortality, Dan Jorgensen
  • Death by Sorcery - The Social Dynamics of Dying in Bariai, West New Britain, Naomi M. Scaletta
  • Ageing and Dying in Pacific Societies - Implications for Theory in Social Gerontology, Victor W. Marshall.

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