Through Japanese Eyes
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Through Japanese Eyes

Thirty Years of Studying Aging in America

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Through Japanese Eyes

Thirty Years of Studying Aging in America

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In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in America from a cross-cultural perspective. Comparing aging in America and in her native Japan, she discovers that notable differences in the pan-human experience of aging are rooted in cultural differences between these two countries, and that Americans have strongly negative attitudes toward aging because it represents the antithesis of cherished American values, especially independence.Tsuji's research discloses how her American interlocutors ingeniously fill this gap between the ideal and the real to live meaningful lives. The book also reveals that American culture, despite its seeming lack of guidance for those aging, plays a pivotal role in elders' lives, simultaneously assisting and constraining them. Furthermore, Tsuji's lengthy period of research illustrates major changes in her interlocutors' lives, incorporating their declines and death, and significant shifts in the culture of aging in American society. The book also describes the author's journey of getting to know American culture and growing into senescence herself.

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781978819573
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Preface
  8. Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Japanese Names
  9. Introduction: Anthropology, Cultural Values, and Aging
  10. Chapter 1. Activities as Value at Lake District Senior Center
  11. Chapter 2. Elders Supporting Each Other to Help Themselves
  12. Chapter 3. Networking at Lake District Senior Center
  13. Chapter 4. Postretirement Housing and Living Arrangements
  14. Chapter 5. Who Supports Older Americans? Families, Self, and Other Sources
  15. Chapter 6. Temporal Complexity in Older Americans’ Lives
  16. Chapter 7. Changes and Continuities over Thirty Years of Research
  17. Conclusion: Challenges and Hopes in the New Frontier of Aging
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. Index
  22. About the Author