The Honorable Elders Revisited
Author | : Erdman Ballagh Palmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780822302636 |
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Author | : Erdman Ballagh Palmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780822302636 |
Author | : Yasuhito Kinoshita |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520911784 |
Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new ways to care for their elders. This timely study documents the birth of a major social phenomenon in Japan—the planned retirement community. In the mid-1980s, Yasuhito Kinoshita spent a year living in Japan's first such community, Fuji-no-Sato. His collaboration with Christie W. Kiefer, a cultural gerontologist, is the first detailed study of a retirement community in a non-Western culture. Fuji-no-Sato is a social community with no visible traditions. Kinoshita and Kiefer show that its residents' preference for long-established relationships creates the need for the invention of relationships that have no precedent in Japanese society. This book reveals much about Japanese culture, and about the "graying of society" that plagues the newly industrialized countries of Asia. Its lessons about sensitivity to the elderly's values and the need for clear communication have important applications in other cultures as well.
Author | : Michael D. McNally |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2009-08-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0231518250 |
Like many Native Americans, Ojibwe people esteem the wisdom, authority, and religious significance of old age, but this respect does not come easily or naturally. It is the fruit of hard work, rooted in narrative traditions, moral vision, and ritualized practices of decorum that are comparable in sophistication to those of Confucianism. Even as the dispossession and policies of assimilation have threatened Ojibwe peoplehood and have targeted the traditions and the elders who embody it, Ojibwe and other Anishinaabe communities have been resolute and resourceful in their disciplined respect for elders. Indeed, the challenges of colonization have served to accentuate eldership in new ways. Using archival and ethnographic research, Michael D. McNally follows the making of Ojibwe eldership, showing that deference to older women and men is part of a fuller moral, aesthetic, and cosmological vision connected to the ongoing circle of life a tradition of authority that has been crucial to surviving colonization. McNally argues that the tradition of authority and the authority of tradition frame a decidedly indigenous dialectic, eluding analytic frameworks of invented tradition and naïve continuity. Demonstrating the rich possibilities of treating age as a category of analysis, McNally provocatively asserts that the elder belongs alongside the priest, prophet, sage, and other key figures in the study of religion.
Author | : Aileen Muhammad |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1496911423 |
Two Philadelphia natives meet at Salem College in Winston Salem. Nathan Ross Freeman is Aileen Muhammad's poetry and screenwriting professor. She believes he is her blood brother by some accidental occurrence. He says maybe in another life. She begins to write stories. He shares his and here they are. The threads that weave the fabric of these stories, the entry into the avenue of the muse and the poetic conjures are startling and satisfying.
Author | : Ptolemy of Lucca |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2010-11-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0812201337 |
Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early modern period. He was the first to attack kingship as despotism and to draw parallels between ancient Greek models of mixed constitution and the Roman Republic, biblical rule, the Church, and medieval government. In addition to his translation of this important and radical medieval political treatise, written around 1300, James M. Blythe includes a sixty-page introduction to the work and provides over 1200 footnotes that trace Ptolemy's sources, explain his references, and comment on the text, the translation, the context, and the significance.
Author | : Gilbert Morris |
Publisher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2004-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1441233741 |
The volume that launched the blockbuster House of Winslow series. Gilbert Winslow, forced by his family into the pulpit of the Church of England, becomes a spy among religious separatists. Who will he turn to when the forces of good and evil threaten to pull him apart?
Author | : John Cotton Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : Connecticut |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Raucat |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2013-12-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131782850X |
Written in 1924, this has been called the best novel ever written abo Penned in 1924, this has been called the best novel ever written about Japan, and its charm remains undiminished. The French author, a pilot during World War I, was sent to Japan as a flying instructor after the war, and this book is a fictionalised account with line drawings of the year he spent