Linked Lives

Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka

Michele Ruth Gamburd (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

206 Seiten

2020
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1530-8 (ISBN)

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Provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it.

When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it. The care work that grandparents do for grandchildren allows labor migration and contributes to the overall well-being of the extended family. The book considers the efforts migrant workers make to build and buy houses and the ways those rooms and walls constrain social activities. It outlines the strategies elders employ to age in place, and the alternatives they face in local old folks’ homes. Based on ethnographic work done over a decade, Michele Gamburd shows how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.

MICHELE RUTH GAMBURD is professor of anthropology at Portland State University, Oregon.

List of Illustrations

1          Introduction

2          Chaos Flower: The Meaning of Family

3          Weighing Financial Opportunities: Migration, Remittances, or Help from the Hand?

4          Exchanging Assets for Care: Pensions and the Transfer of Property

5          A Youngest Son Called “Hope”: Virilocal Ultimogeniture and the Ancestral Home

6          Health and Illness: Aging, Self, and Bodily Care

7          Shelter or Shame? Old Folks’ Homes

8          Rebirth: Buddhism, Almsgivings and the Transmigration of Souls

9          On Beginnings and Endings

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	19.10.2020
Zusatzinfo	12 b-w images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	3 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-1530-1 / 1978815301
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-1530-8 / 9781978815308
Zustand	Neuware