Aging and Its Transformations (Moving Towards Death in Pacific Societies)

Counts, Dorothy Ayers & David R. Counts (eds)

ISBN 10: 082295477X / ISBN 13: 9780822954774

Published by University of Pittsburhe Press, 1985

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336 pages.

Seller Inventory # 014821

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aging and Its Transformations (Moving Towards Death in Pacific Societies)
• Publisher: University of Pittsburhe Press
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082295477X
• ISBN 13: 9780822954774
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • New Zealand

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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.