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.
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.
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 Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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 Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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