Number Our Days (Touchstone Book) - Softcover

Myerhough, B.

 
9780671254308: Number Our Days (Touchstone Book)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0671254308 ISBN 13: 9780671254308
Verlag: Pocket Books, 1980

Inhaltsangabe

When noted anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff received a grant to explore the process of aging, she decided to study some elderly Jews from Venice, California, rather than to report on a more exotic people. The story of the rituals and lives of these remarkable old people is, as Bel Kaufman said, "one of those rare books that leave the reader somehow changed."
Here Dr. Myerhoff records the stories of a culture that seems to give people the strength to face enormous daily problems -- poverty, neglect, loneliness, poor health, inadequate housing and physical danger. The tale is a poignant one, funny and often wise, with implications for all of us about the importance of ritual, the agonies of aging, and the indomitable human spirit.

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The chairperson of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California, Dr. Myerhoff collaborated on a film about her work while she was doing the research for Number Our Days. It won the 1977 Academy Award for best short documentary. Her last book, Peyote Hunt, was nominated for a National Book Award.

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Verlag
Pocket Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1980
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0671254308
ISBN 13 
9780671254308
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
318
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