John W. Traphagan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Medical Anthropology Series Editors' Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xv
A Note on Conventions
xvii
Map of Japan
xviii
Chapter 1 Introduction: New Year's Day, 1996
3
(26)
Culture, Religion, and Aging
12
(9)
Health and Well-Being
21
(1)
Methods and Writing
22
(3)
The Program
25
(4)
Chapter 2 Aging and Anomie in Rural Japan
29
(28)
Social Networks: Family and Friends
36
(7)
Aging in the Tohoku Region and Japan
43
(14)
Chapter 3 Aging, Well-Being, and Ikigai
57
(22)
Illness, Health, and Old Age in Japan
63
(4)
Collective and Individual Responses to the Potential of Boke
67
(5)
Power, Well-Being, and Ikigai
72
(7)
Chapter 4 Omairi: The Practice of Concern
79
(48)
Sectarian Affiliation
83
(8)
Omairi: Ritual Expression of Concern
91
(5)
The Private Context of Omairi
96
(9)
The Ancestors
105
(4)
The Public Context of Omairi
109
(15)
Enacting Concern
124
(3)
Chapter 5 Old Women, Ancestors, and Caregiving
127
(20)
Dreams and the Departed
130
(6)
Older Women and Concern
136
(11)
Chapter 6 Matsuri: Expressing Collective Concern
147
(20)
Kabosai : The Fire Prevention Festival in Kanegasaki
148
(5)
Age and the Structure of Kabosai
153
(8)
Concern and Kabosai
161
(3)
Gender, Age, and Domains of Ritual Practice
164
(3)
Chapter 7 Old Age, Ritual, and Concern
167
(16)
Endnotes
183
(18)
Glossary of Key Terms
201
(6)
Bibliography
207
(16)
Index
223
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