Performance ritual and the construction of selfhood and identity among older people in West Fife
This study examines the experience of old age among older people within different settings in West Fife. It is an anthropological and phenomenological study of ritual performances of identity, and means by which older people accomplish the development of a collective identity, their selfhood, their...
Main Author: | Johnson, Jennifer Anne |
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University of Edinburgh
1998
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.653035 |
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