Ageing in Africa : sociolinguistic and anthropological approaches /: sociolinguistic and anthropological approaches. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sinfree Makoni and Koen Stroeken.
• Other Names: Makoni, Sinfree; Stroeken, Koen
• Contents: Towards a cultural and linguistic construction of late-life dementia in an urban African population / Monica Ferreira and Sinfree Makoni -- Identity management and old age construction among Xhosa-speakers in urban South Africa : complaint discourse revisited / Andreas Sagner -- Imprints of history and economy across the life course of an elederly Namaqualander 1920-1966 / Robin Oakley -- From shrub to log : the ancestral dimension of elderhood among Sukuma in Tanzania / Koen Stroeken -- Coming of age and autority : milk as a source of power in Himbaland, Norther Namibia / Steven Van Wolputte -- Social categories and seniority in a house-based society / Alexis B. Tengan -- Holding up the sky : gender, age and work among the Abaluyia of Kenya / Maria G. Cattell -- Rhetoric of remembrance : privileged authority of elders and the contested gradations of seniority / Stella Nyanchama Okemwa -- 'They don't listen' : contemporary respect relations between Zulu grandmothers and grandchildren / Valeri Moller and Ayanda Sotshongaye -- The toilet : dignity, privacy and care of elderly people in Kwahu, Ghana / Sjaak van der Geest -- 'They talk to us like children' : language and intergeneratiional discourse in first-time encounters in an African township / Sinfree Makoni -- Skeletons of the past, flesh and blood in the present : remebrance and older people in a south african context / Els van Dongen.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (306 pages)
• Subjects: 305.26/096; Older people -- Africa -- Cross-cultural studies; Aging -- Africa -- Cross-cultural studies; Intergenerational relations -- Africa -- Cross-cultural studies; Gerontology -- Africa; Sociolinguistics -- Africa; Aging -- ethnology; Socioeconomic Factors; Aged -- psychology; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Ethnopsychology -- methods; Geriatrics -- methods; Intergenerational Relations; Personnes âgées -- Afrique -- Études transculturelles; Vieillissement -- Afrique -- Études transculturelles; Relations entre générations -- Afrique -- Études transculturelles; Gérontologie sociale -- Afrique; Sociolinguistique -- Afrique; Aging; Gerontology; Intergenerational relations; Older people; Sociolinguistics; Ouderen; Gerontologie; Sociolinguïstiek; Alter; Soziolinguistik; Africa; Africa; Afrika; Cross-cultural studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351960229; 1351960229
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.