Journal article
Anthropology of Aging and Care
Annual review of anthropology, Vol.44(1), pp.277-293
10/21/2015
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014254
Abstract
In concert with lengthening life spans, emerging forms of care in later life reflect complex and diverse social changes. Embracing a polysemic understanding of care as simultaneously resource and relational practice, this review works across scales of social life and theoretical approaches to care to highlight connections and fissures between global political-economic transformations and the most intimate aspects of daily life. Arguing for analyses of care that account for the kinds of projects, stakes, and obstacles that emerge as people engage in social reproduction in later life, this review traces the circulation of care across aging bodies, everyday practices, families, and nations. Care in later life never exclusively impacts the lives of the old; it is thus a critical site for understanding the diverse ways that increased longevity is shaping the meanings, experiences, and consequences of life itself.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Anthropology of Aging and Care
- Creators
- Elana D Buch
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Annual review of anthropology, Vol.44(1), pp.277-293
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- DOI
- 10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014254
- ISSN
- 0084-6570
- eISSN
- 1545-4290
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/21/2015
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology
- Record Identifier
- 9983983649902771
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