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Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society (Paperback)

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By John W. Traphagan (Editor), John Knight (Editor)
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A demographic and ethnographic exploration of how the aging Japanese society is affecting the family.

About the Author


John W. Traphagan is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan, published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor (with Kiyotaka Aoyagi and Peter J. M. Nas) of Toward Sustainable Cities: Readings in the Anthropology of Urban Environments. John Knight is Lecturer at the School of Anthropological Studies at Queen's University Belfast. He is the editor of Natural Enemies: People-Wildlife Conflicts in Anthropological Perspective.

Product Details
ISBN: 9780791456507
ISBN-10: 0791456501
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication Date: January 30th, 2003
Pages: 256
Language: English
Series: Suny Series in Japan in Transition (Paperback)