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The way of Choju: Self-sufficiency, health, and longevity in Ashikita town, an agrarian community in southern Japan.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The way of Choju: Self-sufficiency, health, and longevity in Ashikita town, an agrarian community in southern Japan./
Author:	Sipos, Jessica Busch.
Description:	337 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-04, Section: A, page: 1426.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-04A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Medical and Forensic. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3311858
ISBN:	9780549600374

The way of Choju: Self-sufficiency, health, and longevity in Ashikita town, an agrarian community in southern Japan.
Sipos, Jessica Busch.

The way of Choju: Self-sufficiency, health, and longevity in Ashikita town, an agrarian community in southern Japan. - 337 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-04, Section: A, page: 1426.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2008.

Japanese are among the longest-lived people in the world. Human longevity is receiving increasing attention as the world's population experiences unprecedented rates of elderly people. At the same time, concern with senescence and age-associated diseases accompany the "graying" of the world. Because this topic is complex, intersected with myriad other social, biological, and cultural phenomena, this dissertation seeks to offer a theoretical distinction between "aging" as a social and cultural phenomenon and "senescence" as the biological processes of growing old, a distinction which will mitigate the tendency to conflate biological experience with cultural meanings, although the biocultural theoretical approach framing this dissertation demonstrates that biology and culture are inextricably linked. Rather, the distinction between senescence and aging better allows insight into the interstices where biology and culture meet and mutually influence each other.

ISBN: 9780549600374Subjects--Topical Terms:

1020279
Anthropology, Medical and Forensic.

The way of Choju: Self-sufficiency, health, and longevity in Ashikita town, an agrarian community in southern Japan.
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