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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Iza Kavedžija , Alma GottliebPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 9780812251364ISBN 10: 0812251369 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 26 July 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback 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 ContentsReviewsMaking Meaningful Lives is a carefully conducted and beautifully written ethnography about existential human questions: what is a meaningful life and how can we lead it? Iza Kavedžiji explores these questions through the narratives of elderly people living in Osaka, Japan. In so doing, she adds a fresh and new perspective to the preponderance of literature on aging (in) Japan . . . [T]he book captivates not only through its detailed insights on the life worlds of the informants but also through its optimism and its fresh and new perspective on aging and on being elderly. * <i>Contemporary Japan</i> * [A]n excellent and timely contribution to the literature on Japan’s aging society. It supplies a highly original ethnographic case study approach that allows the reader to view aging holistically from the inside out. Thanks to the quality and depth of documentation and interpretation, it also convincingly translates and interprets the aging experience...Making Meaningful Livesargues persuasively that aging requires a radical rethinking in terms of how society frames individually lived experiences and the human creation of meaning * Japan Review * Making Meaningful Lives is engrossing, beautifully written, and well-researched. It demonstrates compellingly that a book centered on aging and older persons can illuminate much broader processes. * Sarah Lamb, Brandeis University * Making Meaningful Lives is engrossing, beautifully written, and well-researched. It demonstrates compellingly that a book centered on aging and older persons can illuminate much broader processes. -Sarah Lamb, Brandeis University Author InformationIza Kavedžija is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology at the University of Exeter. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |