Aging (Beitrage Zur Kultur Und Geistesgeschichte Asiens),Used

Aging (Beitrage Zur Kultur Und Geistesgeschichte Asiens),Used

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With the greying of the population in Western industrialized nations and the resultant problems, interest has increasingly been drawn to the construction of old age in historical periods and nonEuropean societies. Asia has been the focus of considerable attention in this context due on the one hand to values such as filial piety or the prevalence of the seniority principle which many Asian cultures are credited with and which are thought to contribute to creating a cultural climate especially favourable to the elderly in this region of the world, and to recurrant reports of a tradition of abandonment of the elderly on the other, which also attest to a darker side of this issue. In 17 contributions that geographically span the area from India to China and Japan and historically cover periods from the earliest times of literate cultures to the present, the volume presents new findings on both the valuation of aging in the various intellectual and religious traditions of Asia, and the actual living conditions of the elderly in this region of the world in a crosscultural perspective. The considerable historical and regional variation in the conceptions of old age and the often surprising determinants of the status of the elderly, as they are documented in this volume, should also contribute to enrich sociogerontological discussion on a more general level.

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