Aging and Its Transformations: Moving Toward Death in Pacific Societies

Counts, Dorothy Ayers; Counts, David R.

ISBN 10: 082295477X / ISBN 13: 9780822954774

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A., 1992

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VERY GOOD softcover, no marks in text, square uncreased spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aging and Its Transformations: Moving Toward Death in Pacific Societies
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082295477X
• ISBN 13: 9780822954774
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Studies the changing social status of ageing members of the community in Pacific societies, cultural understandings of the processes of life and death, relationships between the living, the dying and the dead and strategies employed by individuals as they mature, gain adult status, age and die.