Other ways of growing old : anthropological perspectives /
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
1981.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Pamela T. Amoss and Stevan Harrell
- Evolutionary perspectives on human aging / Kenneth M. Weiss
- "Nepotists" and "altruists" / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- "The old people give you life" / Megan Biesele and Nancy Howell
- Old age among the Chipewyan / Henry S. Sharp
- The elderly Asmat of New Guinea / Peter W. Van Arsdale
- Old age in Gwembe District, Zambia / Elizabeth Colson and Thayer Scudder
- Respected elder or old person / James D. Nason
- Growing in respect / N. Nazif Shahrani
- Growing old in rural Taiwan / Stevan Harrell
- Old age in a south Indian village / Paul G. Hiebert
- Coast Salish elders / Pamela T. Amoss.