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OverviewBy 2030, over 30% of the Japanese population will be 65 or older, foreshadowing the demographic changes occurring elsewhere in Asia and around the world. What can we learn from a study of the aging population of Japan and how can these findings inform a path forward for the elderly, their families, and for policy makers? Based on nearly a decade of research, Aging and Loss examines how the landscape of aging is felt, understood, and embodied by older adults themselves. In detailed portraits, anthropologist Jason Danely delves into the everyday lives of older Japanese adults as they construct narratives through acts of reminiscence, social engagement and ritual practice, and reveals the pervasive cultural aesthetic of loss and of being a burden. Through first-hand accounts of rituals in homes, cemeteries, and religious centers, Danely argues that what he calls the self-in-suspense can lead to the emergence of creative participation in an economy of care. In everyday rituals for the spirits, older adults exercise agency and reinterpret concerns of social abandonment within a meaningful cultural narrative and, by reimagining themselves and their place in the family through these rituals, older adults in Japan challenge popular attitudes about eldercare. Danely’s discussion of health and long-term care policy, and community welfare organizations, reveal a complex picture of Japan’s aging society. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jason DanelyPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.375kg ISBN: 9780813565163ISBN 10: 0813565162 Pages: 229 Publication Date: 02 January 2015 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Loss 1 Loss, Abandonment, and Aesthetics 2 The Weight of Loss: Experiencing Aging and Grief Part II: Mourning 3 Landscapes of Mourning: Constructing Nature and Kinship 4 Temporalities of Loss: Transience and Yielding 5 Passing it on: Circulating Aging Narratives Part III: Abandonment and Care 6 Aesthetics of Failed Subjectivity Part IV: Hope 7 Care and Recognition: Encountering the Other World 8 The Heart of Aging: An Afterword Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsA gracious, observant, and sensitive ethnography. -American Ethnologist A gracious, observant, and sensitive ethnography. -American Ethnologist Jason Danely s book represents an excellent contribution to our understanding of aging in Japan and provides an important exploration of the intersection of religion and aging. --John Traphagan professor of religious studies, University of Texas at Austin Jason Danely's book represents an excellent contribution to our understanding of aging in Japan and provides an important exploration of the intersection of religion and aging. --John Traphagan professor of religious studies, University of Texas at Austin (10/14/2014) Author InformationJASON DANELY earned a bachelor's in comparative religion from Western Michigan University and a PhD in anthropology from the University of California, San Diego. He is recipient of an IIE Fulbright Research Grant, the Melford E. Spiro Dissertation Award, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center on Age and Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. He is co-editor, with Caitrin Lynch, of Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course (2013, Berghahn Books) and editor-in-chief of Anthropology and Aging. He is currently a senior lecturer of anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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