Other Ways of Growing Old. Anthropological Perspectives.

orig.cloth Minor rubbing, VG, in a torn & chipped dustwrapper., dustwrapper Textual graph & tables 22x14cm, xxi, 270 pp, Contains 12 papers. Includes: Kenneth M. Weiss "Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Aging"; Sarah Blaffer Hrdy " 'Nepotists' & 'Altruists': The Behaviour of Old Females among Macaques and Langur Monkeys"; " 'The Old People Give You Life': Aging among !Kung Hunter-Gatherers"; Henry S. Sharp "Old Age among the Chipewyan"; Peter W. Van Arsdale "The Elderly Asmat of New Guinea"; James D. Nason "Respected Elder or Old Person: Aging in a Micronesian Community"; M. Nazif Shahrani "Growing in Respect: Aging among the Kirghiz of Afghanistan"; Stevan Harrell "Growing Old in Rural Taiwan"; Paul G. Hiebert "Old Age in a South Indian Village"; Pamela T. Amoss "Coast Salish Elders", etc. Minor rubbing, VG, in a torn & chipped dustwrapper., dustwrapper.