Welcome to middle age! :  (and other cultural fictions) / 
edited by Richard A. Shweder. 
 - xvii, 302 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Studies on successful midlife development .
 - John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development.  Studies on successful midlife development. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Preface /  Introduction: welcome to middle age! /  The rise of a cosmopolitan midlife discourse : --  Midlife discourses in the twentieth-century United States: an essay on the sexuality, ideology, and politics of "middle-ageism" /  Deconstructing the change: female maturation in Japan and North America /  Search for middle age in India /  Alternative cultural representations of the life course: Mature adulthood without middle age : --  Status reversal: the coming of aging in Samoa /  Return of the "white man's burden": the moral discourse of anthropology and the domestic life of Hindu women /  Fertility and maturity in Africa: Gusii parents in middle adulthood /  Diversity, resistance, and conflict within the United States : --  Children of the 1960s at midlife: generational identity and the family adaptive project /  Place and race: midlife experience in Harlem /  Richard A. Shweder --  Richard A. Shweder --  Margaret Morganroth Gullette --  Margaret Lock --  Sudhir Kakar --  Bradd Shore --  Usha Menon and Richard A. Shweder --  Robert A. LeVine and Sarah LeVine --  Thomas S. Weisner and Lucinda P. Bernheimer --  Katherine Newman  Part I.  Part II.  Part III. 
<br/><br/> "In this volume, anthropologists, behavioral scientists, and historians explore topics ranging from the Western ideology of "midlife decline" to cultural representations of mature adulthood that operate without the category of middle age. The result is a fascinating, panoramic collection that explores the myths surrounding and the representations of mature adulthood and of those years in the life span from thirty to seventy."--Publisher's website. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226756076 9780226756073 0226756084 9780226756080 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97045115 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Middle age--Cross-cultural studies
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1059.4  / .W45 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.244