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Elders/Old AgeBibliography



Amoss, Pamela T., and Stevan Harrell, eds. Other Ways of Growing Old: Anthropological Perspectives. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1981.

Bengston, Vern L., and K. Warner Schaie, eds. Handbook of Theories of Aging. New York: Springer, 1999.

Browne, Colette V. Women, Feminism, and Aging. New York: Springer, 1998.

Cohen, Lawrence. "Old Age: Cultural and Critical Perspectives." Annual Reviews of Anthropology 23 (1994): 137–158.

Cowgill, Donald O., and Lowell D. Holmes. Aging and Modernization. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972.

Estes, Carroll L. The Aging Enterprise. With contributions by Philip R. Lee, Lenore Gerard, and Maureen Noble. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1979.

Fry, Christine L., ed. Aging in Culture and Society: Comparative Viewpoints and Strategies. New York: Praeger, 1980.

Keith, Jennie. "'The Best Is Yet To Be': Toward an Anthropology of Age." Annual Reviews of Anthropology 9 (1980): 339–364.

Kertzer, David I., and Jennie Keith, eds. Age and Anthropological Theory. Foreword by Matilda White Riley. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Lock, Margaret. Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Simmons, Leo W. The Role of the Aged in Primitive Society. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1970.

Sokolovsky, Jay, ed. The Cultural Context of Aging: Worldwide Perspectives. 2nd ed. Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, 1997.

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