Book
From childhood to centenarian
Progress Publishers • Moscow • Published In 1984 • Pages:
By: Garb, Paula.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
During the summer of 1979 the author joined an expedition of Soviet cultural anthropologists in the mountain settlements of Abkhazia as part of a long-term joint Soviet-United States project on aging and longevity, seeking the secrets of an active life beyong the age of 90, the academics' definition of what they term a long-lived person. After a series of background interviews with centenarians about what they eat, how much they sleep, what work schedules they keep, etc., Garb asked her informants to take her back to their childhood and recount all they could remember about their long lives dating back to the nineteenth century. These individuals reminisced about life in Abkhasia during czarist rule at the time when the patriarchal feudal order was just giving way to burgeoning capitalist development. They recalled their parents, the way they were raised, their memories of early Soviet government, the formation of collective farms, World War II, and their opinions of modern Abkhasian youth.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Mortality
- Senescence
- Status and treatment of the aged
- Artificial kin relationships
- Adoption
- Infant care
- Child care
- Education system
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Abkhazians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Caucasus
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- 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; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1864-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Abkhazia, Georgia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Paula Garb
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 182)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84207534
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Family--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia/Child rearing--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia/Abkhazians--Social conditions/Abkhazians--Social life and customs/Centenarians--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia