Other Ways of Growing Old
Amoss, Pamela T / Harrell, Stevan![Other Ways of Growing Old](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/228/22817204/CHSBZCOP0322817204.jpg)
As anthropologists, we offer this book about aging in a wide variety of human societies in the hope of its making three contributions. First, this book will help to remedy a massive neglect of old age by the discipline of anthropology. The pioneering work of Leo Simmons (1945) has remained a lonely monument since the 1940's, for despite recent interest in the subject of aging in modern Western societies on the part of social gerontologists and...