The 2019 Margaret Clark Award winners
The Margaret Clark Award brings a cash prize of $300 and honors the legacy of Margaret Clark’s work in socio-cultural gerontology and medical anthropology as […]
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Of grandparents, memories and the pandemic
While growing up in a small town in the eastern state of Bengal (India), our summer vacations would be spent in Kolkata at the maternal grandparents' home. My grandfather would tell us haunting stories of poverty, hunger and death in the most quotidian manner. In doing so, he sought to make the spontaneity and unpredictability of life “knowable”.
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COVID-19: Bringing the social back in
An understanding of COVID-19's social impact is especially important, both for increasing the effectiveness of interventions and for mitigating the consequences for particular groups.
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Request for Abstracts and Chapters: Anthropological Perspectives on Aging
This announcement comes from AAGE member Britteny Howell, who will edit this volume along with Ryan P. Harrod. Overview Globally, nearly 15% of the world’s […]
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COVID 19 in the life of elderly people in rural Russia: A crisis of confidence, backed up by fear
Questions remain regarding the topic of fear caused by a crisis of trust in both the state and medicine. Therefore, fear can be differentiated; while fear of visiting large villages and a city exists on its own, there also exists those fears of isolating oneself in the space of a village.
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Of dogs and their humans: Late life in a more-than-human world of the COVID-19 pandemic
By Cristina Douglas, University of Aberdeen (Scotland) Sometimes when we go to the park, Bruce – my canine research assistant – and I meet […]
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Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things: Eldercare in Wuhan under COVID-19 By Zhe Yan, University of Würzburg When the pernicious effects of COVID-19 manifested clearly first […]
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Series Title: The Age of COVID-19 As a scholar of aging and gerontology… What do you know, wonder, or worry is happening in your field […]
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