essay

Winners and losers: aging Yugoslavs in a changing world

Life's career-aging : cultural variations on growing old • Beverly Hills • Published In 1978 • Pages: 77-105

By: Simić, Andrei.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

This paper consists of two separate biographical sketches derived from the study of two Serbian families. One biography deals with a seventy-six year old Serbian peasant visiting his grandchildren in California, while the other describes a depressed octogenerian passing his last years in a home for the aged in a provencial Yugoslav town (p. 79). According to the author these case histories suggest the possible range of experience in aging within a single cultural matrix, showing in effect how individuals attempt to resolve, with varying degrees of success, the opposition inherent in society and culture through their everyday choices (p. 80).

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Life history materials

Visiting and hospitality

Organized ceremonial

cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

Serbian Americans

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

1997

RegionThe area the document pertains to

North America

Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region

Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures

Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs

essay

Evaluation

Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.

Ethnologist

Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

John Beierle ; 1996

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

1973

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

1973

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

California, United States

NotesAdditional notes

Andrei Simic

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

77014268

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Serbian Americans