Other Cultures Elder Years Author:Ellen Rhoads Holmes, Lowell D. Holmes The original edition of Other Cultures, Elder Years was the first introductory textbook on the anthropology of ageing. This fully revised Second Edition provides a comparative study on worldwide patterns of ageing, addressing a range of issues including demographic patterns, family relations, perceptions of the life cycle and the i... more »mpact of modernization on elderly people. The book also offers three extended case studies of elderly Inuit, Samoan and white Americans and an examination of ageing patterns among major American ethnic groups.« less