Michele Ruth Gamburd

Linked Lives

Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka

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Produktbeschreibung

When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives invites readers into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village to find out how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781978815315
• ISBN-10: 197881531X
• Artikelnr.: 58814557

Autorenporträt

MICHELE RUTH GAMBURD is professor of anthropology at Portland State University, Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
1          Introduction               
2          Chaos Flower: The Meaning of Family                     
3          Weighing Financial Opportunities: Migration, Remittances, or
Help from the Hand?        
4          Exchanging Assets for Care: Pensions and the Transfer of
Property              
5          A Youngest Son Called "Hope": Virilocal Ultimogeniture and the
Ancestral Home          
6          Health and Illness: Aging, Self, and Bodily
Care                             
7          Shelter or Shame? Old Folks' Homes
8          Rebirth: Buddhism, Almsgivings and the Transmigration of
Souls                          
9          On Beginnings and Endings  
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography  
Index
About the Author