Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society (Suny Series in Japan in Transition and Suny Series in Aging and Culture) [Paperback]

John W. Traphagan (Editor), John Knight (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Suny Series in Japan in Transition | Publication Date: January 30, 2003

A demographic and ethnographic exploration of how the aging Japanese society is affecting the family.

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Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

"Incorporating qualitative and quantitative data and research methods from both demography and social anthropology, this book explores demographic trends in contemporary Japan's rapidly aging society. The contributors describe and analyze trends by addressing the ways in which demographic change is experienced in the context of family. The book considers the social effects, welfare issues, and private and public responses to demographic change and how this change has influenced the experiences of family caregivers and the elderly themselves. It offers both a specific regional contribution to the emerging field of demographic anthropology and an anthropological contribution to cross-disciplinary research on aging." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

"John W. Traphagan is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan, published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor (with Kiyotaka Aoyagi and Peter J. M. Nas) of Toward Sustainable Cities: Readings in the Anthropology of Urban Environments. John Knight is Lecturer at the School of Anthropological Studies at Queen's University Belfast. He is the editor of Natural Enemies: People-Wildlife Conflicts in Anthropological Perspective." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: State University of New York Press (January 30, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791456501
• ISBN-13: 978-0791456507
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #447,737 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)