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Download full textSokolovsky, Jay; Sokolovsky, Joan – 1983
A volume devoted to aging and the aged in Third World societies focuses on ethnographic case studies from Papua New Guinea, China, India, the Sudan, and Mexico. The first of five articles, "Sweeping Men and Harmless Women: Responsibility and Gender Identity in Later Life" (Dorothy Ayers Counts), examines the perception of gender over the…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Case Studies, Developing Nations, Ethnography
