Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2010: 31 (3-4) 61 Features The 2010 AAA Aging and Life Course Interest Group Guide to Key Resources Jay Sokolovsky University of South Florida jsoko@earthlink.net NEW TEXTS: Harper, S. 2006 Ageing Societies. Oxford, ENG: Oxford University Press. Sokolovsky, J. (ed.) 2009 The Cultural Context of Aging: Worldwide Perspectives, 3nd ed. Westport, CT: Praeger/ Greenwood. www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov P. Stephenson and J. Graham (eds.) 2010. Anthropology and Aging: Contesting the Paradigm of Loss, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. HOT OFF THE PRESSES: Alber, E. van der Geest, S. And S. Reynolds Whyte, eds. 2008. Generations in Africa: Connections and Conflicts. Berlin, GER: Verlag. Bateson, Mary Catherine. 2010. Composing a Further Life: the Age of Active Wisdom. New York: Knopf. Harper, S. and R. Goodman, eds. 2008. Ageing in Asia. London: Routledge. Kanamoto, I. 2010. Aging Among Japanese American Immigrants: Activating Ethnicity New York: Routledge. Kawano, S. 2010. Nature’s Embrace: Japan’s Aging Urbanites and Changing Death Rites. University of Hawai’i Press. Lamb, S. 2009. Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Lloyd-Sherlock, P. 2010. Population ageing and international development From generalisation to evidence. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. McNally, M. 2009. Honoring Elders: Aging, Authority, and Ojibwe Religion. New York: Columbia University Press Norwood, F. 2009. The Maintenance of Life: Preventing Social Death Through Euthanasia Talk and End-of-Life Care - Lessons from the Netherlands. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. Rowles, G. and H. Chaudhury, eds. 2008. Home and Identity in Late Life: International Perspectives. New York: Springer. Sanjek, R. 2009. Gray Panthers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Schr€oder-Butterfill, E. Forthcoming. Ageing, Networks and Exchange: Old-Age Support Dynamics in Indonesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Solimeo, S. 2009. With Shaking Hands: Aging with Parkinson’s Disease in America’s Heartland. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Stafford, P. 2009. Elderburbia: Aging and a Sense of Place in America. Westport, CT: Praeger. United Nations. 2007. World Economic and Social Survey 2007: Development in an Ageing World. New York: United Nations. Available at: www.un.org/esa/policy/ wess/wess2007files/wess2007.pdf NEWER BOOKS AND ETHNOGRAPHIES ON AGING: Aboderin, I. 2006. Intergenerational support and old age in Africa. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. Aguilar, M. ed., 2006. Rethinking age in Africa: Colonial, post-colonial, and contemporary interpretations of cultural Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2010: 31 (3-4) 62 Features representations. Lawrenceville, New Jersey: Africa World Press. Bledsoe, C. 2002. Contingent lives: Fertility, time and aging in West Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Cliggett, L. 2005. Grains from grass: Aging, gender and famine in rural Africa. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Crews, D. 2003. Human Senescence: Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. Eschenbruch, E. 2006. Nursing stories: life and death in a german hospice. N.Y.: Berghahn. Francis, D., L. Kellanher and G. Neophytou. 2005. The Secret Garden. NY: Berg. Freidenberg, J. 2000 Growing Old in El Barrio. New York: New York University Press. Guo, Z. 2000. Ginseng and aspirin: Health care alternatives for aging Chinese in New York. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Ikels, C. 2004. Filial devotion: Practice and discourse in contemporary East Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Kaufman, S. 2005. And a time to die: How American hospitals shape the end of life. New York: Scribner Kreager, P. and E. Schröder-Butterfill (eds.) (2005) Ageing without children: European and Asian perspectives on Elderly access to support networks, Oxford, UK: Berghahn. Lamb, S. 2000. White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and the Body in North India, Berkley, CA: Univ. of California Press. Available as an ebook Leibing, A. and L. Cohen. eds. 2006. Thinking about dementia: Culture, loss and the anthropology of senility. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Leidy, L. (2006) Menopause: A biocultural perspective. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Margolies, L. 2004. My mother’s hip: Lessons from the world of eldercare. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. McLean, Athena (2006) The person in dementia: A study of nursing home care in the US. Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press. Newman, K. (2003) A Different shade of gray: Midlife and beyond in the inner city. New York: The New Press. Oliver, C. 2007. Retirement Migration: Paradoxes of Ageing. Routledge Rawlins, J. 2006. Midlife and older women: Family life, work and health in Jamaica. Kingston: Univ of West Indies Press. Rodwin, V. and M. Gusmano, eds Growing Older in World Cities: New York, London, Paris and Tokyo.. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. Savishinsky, 2000. Breaking the watch: The meanings of retirement in America. Ithaca, NY: Cornel University Press. Sievert, L. 2006. Menopause: A Biocultural Perspective. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ Press. Stafford, P. ed., 2003. Gray areas: Ethnographic encounters with nursing home culture. New Brunswick: School of American Research Press. Thang, Leng Leng (2001) Generations in touch: Linking the old and the young in a Tokyo neighbourhood. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. Traphagan, J. (2000) Taming oblivion: Aging bodies and the fear of senility in Japan. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. -------- (2004) The practice of concern: Ritual, well-being, and aging in rural Japan. Durham: Carolina Academic Press. van Willigen, John and N.K. Chadha. 1999. Social Aging in a Delhi Neighborhood. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey. Woolfson, P. (1997) Old age in transition: The geriatric ward. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press. CLASSIC COMPARATIVE RESOURCES: Aguilar, A., ed., 1998. The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: Ethnographies of the Past and Memories of the Present. Lawrenceville, N.J.: Africa World Press. Albert, S.M. and M. G. Cattell. 1994. Old Age in Global Perspective: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Na tional Views. New York: G.K. Hall. Amoss, P. and S. Harrell. eds. 1981. Other ways of growing old: Anthropological perspectives. Stanford, CA: Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2010: 31 (3-4) 63 Features Stanford University Press. Beyene, Y. (1989) From menarche to menopause: reproductive lives of peasant women in two cultures. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Clark, Margaret and Barbara Anderson (1967) Culture and aging: An anthropological study of older Americans. Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas. Cole, J and D. Durham. 2007. Generations and globalization: youth, age, and family in the new Family in the New World Economy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Counts, Dorothy and David Counts (eds.) (1985) Aging and its transformations: Moving toward death in pacific societies. New York: University Press of America. Cowgill, D. and Holmes, L.D., eds. 1972. Aging and Modernization. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. Crews, D. and R. Garruto. 1994. Biological Anthropology and Aging: Perspectives on Human Variation over the Life Span. New York: Oxford University Press. Fry, C. 1980 Aging in culture and society: Comparative viewpoints and strategies. Brooklyn, NY: J.F. Bergin. -------- (1981) Dimensions: Aging, culture and health. Brooklyn, NY: J.F. Bergin. Fry, C. and J. Keith. 1986. New Methods for Old Age Research. South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey. Hareven, T. (Ed.). (1995). Aging and Generational relations over the life course: A historical and cross cultural perspective. Hawthorne, NY: Walter de Gruyter & Co. Henderson, J. N., & Vesperi, M. D. eds. 1995. The culture of long term care: Nursing home ethnography. Westport, CF: Greenwood. Holmes, L. and E. Rhoads, eds. Other Cultures: Elder Years. (2nd Edition) Newbury: Sage 1995. Keith, J. 1982. Old People, New Lives: Community Creation in a Retirement Residence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Keith, J., C. Fry, A.P. Glascock, C. Ikels, J. Dickerson-Putnam, H.C. Harpending and P. Draper. 1994. The Aging Experience: Diversity and Commonality Across Cultures. Thousand Oaks: Sage. Kerns, Virginia and Judith Brown (eds.) (1992) In her prime: New views of middle-aged women, 2nd edition. Urbana: Univer sity of Illinois Press. Myerhoff, B. and A. Simic (eds.) (1978) Life’s career-aging: Cultural variations on growing old. Beverly Hills: Sage. Prendergast, D. 2005. From Elder to Ancestor: Old Age, Death and Inheritance in Modern Korea, Kent, ENG: Global Oriental Monograph Series. Putnam-Dickerson, J. and J. Brown. 1998. Women Among Women: Anthropological Perspectives on Female Age-Hierarchies. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. Rowles, G. and N. Schoenberg, eds. 2002. Qualitative Gerontology: Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Springer. Rubinstein, R. Anthropology and Aging: Comprehensive Reviews, Kluwer, 1990. P. Silverman (ed.). 1987. The elderly as modern pioneers. Bloomington, Indiana University Press. Schweitzer, M. 1991. Anthropology of Aging: A Partially Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood,. Simmons, L.W. 1945. The Role of the Aged in Primitive Society. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University press. KEY PRE-1999 ETHNOGRAPHIES Becker, G. 1980. Growing old in silence. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Francis, D. 1984. Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m 84? Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ Press. Kaufman, S. 1986. The ageless self: Sources of meaning in late life. Madison, WI: Univ of Wisconsin Press. Cohen, L. 1998. No aging in India, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Counts, D. and D. Counts. 1996. Over the next hill: An ethnography of riving seniors in north America. Petersborough, Ont.: Broadview. Hazan, Haim 1980. The Limbo people. Boston: Routledge and Kegan. Myerhoff, B. 1978. Number Our Days. New York: E.P. Dutton. Rasmussen, Susan . 1997. The poetics and politics of Tuareg aging: Life course and personal destiny in Niger. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press. Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2010: 31 (3-4) 64 Features Savishinsky, J. 1991. The ends of time: Life and work in a nursing home. New York: Bergin and Garvey. Shenk, D. 1998. Someone to lend a helping hand: Women growing old in rural America. Newark, NJ: Gordon and Breach. Van Willigen, J. and N.K. Chadha (1999) Social aging in a Delhi neighborhood. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey. Vesperi, M. (1998) City of green benches: Growing old in a new downtown. 2nd Edition. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. TEACHING: Shenk, D. and J. Sokolovsky. 1999. Teaching About Aging: Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, 3rd Edition) Jointly published by AAGE and AGHE – details at: http://www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/ guide.htm S. E. Johnson. Teaching project using the hraf files: “Culture and Aging: A Research Project in Completed Fertility & Subsistence Practices, Productivity & Aging, and Social Networks & Aging.” http://www. yale.edu/hraf/culture aging.htm Cohen-Shalev, A. 2009. Visions of Aging: Images of the Elderly in Film, Sussex Academic Press. KEY SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHY RESOURCE Kevin Kinsella, K. and W. He. 2008. An Aging World 2008. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p95-09-1.pdf JOURNALS Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology www.springerlink.com/content/102929/ - Note: recent special issues on: Intracultural Variation , the Middle East; Social Change in Africa and Biological anthropology Anthropology and Aging Quarterly http://aage.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=86&club_id=497336 AARP International: The Journal (www.aarpinternational.org/journal) PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES / NETWORKS: AAGE: Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, http://aage.clubexpress.com/ IUAES Commission on Aging - Leng Leng Thang, Chair. Aging in Developing Countries Network, http://adcnet.psc.isr.umich.edu/links GATEWAY WEB SITES: AARP Global Aging Page - www.aarpinternational.org The Cultural Context of Aging Web Page www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov The Aging in Developing Countries network http://adcnet.psc.isr.umich.edu/people/ KEY REPORTS: Older Americans 2010: Key Indicators of Well-Being www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/Main_Site/Data/2010_Documents/Docs/OA_2010.pdf National Institute on Aging, 2008 An Aging World: 2008. International Population Reports Health Welbeing and Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean: www.ssc.wisc.edu/sabe/docs/informeFinal%20Ingles%20noviembre%202004.pdf The Comparative Study of Aging and Health in Asia (AHA), http://aha.psc.isr.umich.edu/research.html Gender and Aging in SE Asia and the Developing World, www.phishare.org/partners/GenderAging/ The Global Aging Initiative (Center for Strategic and International Studies) http://csis.org/node/13319/ publication gateway to new reports on China, Latin America and Post-Industrial Societies.