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Myerhoff B Life History Among The Elderly by Rodrigo Murguía is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document discusses life histories among the elderly and how performance and visibility can help with re-membering. It focuses on a group of elderly Jewish immigrants who felt invisible in mainstream American society. While facing threats of death, impotence and invisibility, they maintained a sense of intensity, vitality and dignity. Their self-consciousness, promoted through collective performances and private self-narration of life histories, helped them succeed as elderly people. Telling their stori

Author

Rodrigo Murguía

Language

EN