Jay Sokolovsky

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

Worldwide Perspectives

The consequences of global aging will influence virtually all areas of life to be encountered in the 21st century, including the biological limits of healthy longevity, the generational contract and nature of family ties, the makeup of households and communities, symbolic representations of midlife and old age and attitudes toward disability and death. The 3rd edition of this book covers all these topics and more. It uses a qualitative, case study approach to look at the rapidly emerging new cultural spaces and social scripts through which mid and late life are being encountered globally. It is completely revised with over thirty new original works covering China, Japan, Denmark, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, indigenous Amazonia, rural Italy and the ethnic landscape of the U.S.

The Cultural Context of Aging

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John Truby

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works

"A guide to understanding the major story genres and how to write them"--

The Anatomy of Genres

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Bambi Schieffelin

Michael Silverstein

Richard Bauman

Charles L. Briggs

Marjorie Harness Goodwin

Judith Irvine

Joel Kuipers

Don Kulick

John Lucy

Elinor Ochs

Some underlining and highlighting in the first 30 pages only. 

Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality

Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern world. This novel reading of over two centuries of philosophy, political theory, anthropology, folklore and history argues that new ways of imagining language and representing supposedly premodern people - the poor, labourers, country folk, non-europeans and women - made political and scientific revolutions possible. The connections between language ideologies, privileged linguistic codes, and political concepts and practices shape the diverse ways we perceive ourselves and others. Bauman and Briggs demonstrate that contemporary efforts to make schemes of social inequality based on race, gender, class and nationality seem compelling and legitimate, rely on deeply-rooted ideas about language and tradition. Showing how critics of modernity unwittingly reproduce these foundational fictions, they suggest new strategies for challenging the undemocratic influence of these voices of modernity.

Voices of Modernity

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