TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shweder,Richard A.
TI  - Welcome to middle age!: (and other cultural fictions) 
T2  - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Studies on successful midlife development
SN  - 0226756076
AV  - HQ1059.4 .W45 1998
U1  - 305.244 23
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Middle age
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface; Richard A. Shweder --; Introduction: welcome to middle age!; Richard A. Shweder --; Part I; 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"; Margaret Morganroth Gullette --; Deconstructing the change: female maturation in Japan and North America; Margaret Lock --; Search for middle age in India; Sudhir Kakar --; Part II; Alternative cultural representations of the life course: Mature adulthood without middle age : --; Status reversal: the coming of aging in Samoa; Bradd Shore --; Return of the "white man's burden": the moral discourse of anthropology and the domestic life of Hindu women; Usha Menon and Richard A. Shweder --; Fertility and maturity in Africa: Gusii parents in middle adulthood; Robert A. LeVine and Sarah LeVine --; Part III; Diversity, resistance, and conflict within the United States : --; Children of the 1960s at midlife: generational identity and the family adaptive project; Thomas S. Weisner and Lucinda P. Bernheimer --; Place and race: midlife experience in Harlem; Katherine Newman
N2  - "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
ER  -