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Complexities of elder livelihoods : changing age-inscriptions and stable norms in three villages in rural West Africa

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Häberlein, Tabea:
Complexities of elder livelihoods : changing age-inscriptions and stable norms in three villages in rural West Africa.
In: Anthropology & Aging. Bd. 39 (2018) Heft 1 . - S. 33-47.
ISSN 2374-2267
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2018.174

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Generationenbeziehungen und innerfamiliäre Ressourcenflüsse in Westafrika: Ein Vergleich Benin – Togo
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Abstract

The intergenerational contract seems to be a dominant social norm of senior care all over the world, in which older adults are cared for reciprocally by those for whom they have cared. Yet in three villages in northern Benin and northern Togo, this intergenerational norm seems to be breached, with older adults living alone and in poverty. However, standardized surveys from a comparative research project established that kin groups do not abandon their older adults, if one considers the kin group to be containing classificatory children instead of the nuclear family with biological children and remittances to substitute for daily care. This article argues that the apparent contradictions between the intergenerational contract and the actual practices of providing care in old age are not so stark. The creative living arrangements of older adults in response to social changes of migration do not challenge the intergenerational contract, but instead are the ways of fulfilling it. The analytical concept of age-inscription (see Alber and Coe in this issue) helps to explain the gap between discursive norms and individual creative solutions of senior care. The social norm of the intergenerational contract persists through new age-inscriptions.

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Begutachteter Beitrag: Ja
Keywords: West Africa; elder care; migration; housing, intergenerational support
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Sozialanthropologie
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Themengebiete aus DDC: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
Eingestellt am: 23 Okt 2018 07:17
Letzte Änderung: 13 Okt 2022 12:57
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/46122