Other Ways of Growing Old by Pamela T. Amoss PAPERBACK 9780804711531

Other Ways of Growing Old\nby Pamela T. Amoss\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Pamela T. Amoss\nTitle: Other Ways of Growing Old\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Age groups: the elderly\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 1981\nISBN-13: 9780804711531\nISBN-10: 0804711534\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nAs anthropologists, we offer this book about aging in a wide variety of human societies in the hope of its making three contributions. First, this book will help to remedy a massive neglect of old age by the discipline of anthropology. The pioneering work of Leo Simmons (1945) has remained a lonely monument since the 1940''s, for despite recent interest in the subject of aging in modern Western societies on the part of social gerontolo.