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List of Contributors | ||
Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction: Towards Transdisciplinary Studies on Ageing in Africa | 1 | |
1 | Towards a Cultural and Linguistic Construction of Late-life Dementia in an Urban African Population | 21 |
2 | Identity Management and Old Age Construction among Xhosa-speakers in Urban South Africa: Complaint Discourse Revisited | 43 |
3 | Imprints of History and Economy across the Life Course of an Elderly Namaqualander 1920-1996 | 67 |
4 | From Shrub to Log: The Ancestral Dimension of Elderhood among Sukuma in Tanzania | 89 |
5 | Coming of Age and Authority: Milk as a Source of Power in Himbaland, Northern Namibia | 109 |
6 | Social Categories and Seniority in a House-based Society | 137 |
7 | Holding Up the Sky: Gender, Age and Work among the Abaluyia of Kenya | 155 |
8 | Rhetoric of Remembrance: Privileged Authority of Elders and the Contested Gradations of Seniority | 177 |
9 | 'They Don't Listen': Contemporary Respect Relations between Zulu Grandmothers and Grandchildren | 203 |
10 | The Toilet: Dignity, Privacy and Care of Elderly People in Kwahu, Ghana | 227 |
11 | 'They Talk to Us Like Children': Language and Intergenerational Discourse in First-time Encounters in an African Township | 245 |
12 | Skeletons of the Past, Flesh and Blood of the Present: Remembrance and Older People in a South African Context | 257 |
Epilogue: African Gerontology: Critical Models, Future Directions | 277 | |
Dedication | 285 | |
Index | 287 |
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