Folklore, Culture, and Aging: A Research Guide

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A resource guide by and about elders and the process of aging, this volume provides a list of over 1,500 references, all annotated, covering a wide range of subject areas. It is organized under such topics as Customs and Beliefs, Narratives, Traditional Arts, Health and Healing, and Applied Folklore, and is further divided into regional and topical subheadings. It also features works on methods and concepts in field research in folklore, oral history, and community studies, a chapter on general works from other fields of interest, as well as a chapter on films. The introduction offers not only a description of the nature and role of elders as creators and carriers of culture, but also a challenge to readersreflected in the broad range of materials citeddefying both narrow conceptions of aging and the aged, and limited notions about the full scope of expressive culture addressed by folklore studies.

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DAVID P. SHULDINER holds appointments as Humanities Program Coordinator with the State of Connecticut, Department of Social Services, Elderly Services Division, as Adjunct Faculty in the School of Family Studies, University of Connecticut, and in the Gerontology Program at Saint Joseph College, and has taught folklore at Trinity College. He is the editor of Folklore In Use, an applied journal published in England and the author of Aging Political Activists: Personal Narratives from the Old Left (Praeger, 1995).