David Reese Counts, Dorothy Ayers Counts

Over the Next Hill (eBook, PDF)

An Ethnography of RVing Seniors in North America, Second Edition

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Over the Next Hill addresses an understudied but fast growing group in our society-the elderly.

CountsDavid Reese:

David R. Counts is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. CountsDorothy Ayers:

Dorothy Ayers Counts is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Waterloo, and has published and edited a wide variety of books, including an extensive work on aging in South Pacific societies that have no place for those who 'retire.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442602793
• Artikelnr.: 54128324

Autorenporträt

By David R. Counts and Dorothy Ayers Counts

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Lurking in the Laundromat: Doing Research With RVers
2. Aging, Retirement, and RVing
3. From Auto Campers to Escapees
4. Gypsies and Pioneers: Images of RVers
5. If They Aren't Us, Who Are They?
6. On the Road Again
7. "Home is Where I Park It"
8. "They're My Family Now"
9. "Hanging Up the Keys"
Appendices:
1. RV Living Survey
2. Research Method
3. Canadian Federal and Provincial Eligibility for Provincial Health
Care
4. Glossary
5. What Now?
References and Internet Resources
Index