Author: Amoss, Pamela T. & Harrell, Stevan, editors:
Title: Other Ways of Growing Old. Anthropological Perspectives.
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1981). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xxi, 270 pp, Contains 12 papers.. Textual graph & tables. Minor rubbing, VG, in a torn & chipped dustwrapper. dustwrapper ¶ Includes: Kenneth M. Weiss "Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Aging"; Sarah Blaffer Hrdy " 'Nepotists' & 'Altruists': The Behaviour of Old Females among Macaques and Langur Monkeys"; " 'The Old People Give You Life': Aging among !Kung Hunter-Gatherers"; Henry S. Sharp "Old Age among the Chipewyan"; Peter W. Van Arsdale "The Elderly Asmat of New Guinea"; James D. Nason "Respected Elder or Old Person: Aging in a Micronesian Community"; M. Nazif Shahrani "Growing in Respect: Aging among the Kirghiz of Afghanistan"; Stevan Harrell "Growing Old in Rural Taiwan"; Paul G. Hiebert "Old Age in a South Indian Village"; Pamela T. Amoss "Coast Salish Elders", etc.

Keywords: Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Ethnography, Human Aging, Old Age, Anthropology, Geriatrics, Sociology, Human Physiology, Primate Behaviour