Synopses & Reviews
"An American anthropologist, Jennie Keith . . . went to live for twelve months in a French housing scheme for retired people and as a participant observer conducted a study in community creation. This book, in which she describes and analyses her experience, is a delight. It is scholarly and draws on a wide range of studies of similar residences and other collectives; it is also vivid, funny, sad and entertaining."—Marie Borland,
British Journal of Social WorkAbout the Author
Jennie Keith is professor of anthropology at Swarthmore College. She has done extensive field research in France, is the author of
Old People as People, numerous articles, and a chapter in the second edition of the
Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
1. Community Creation
2. Les Floralies: The Research Setting
3. Participation in Community
4. Social Status and Community Borders
5. Development of Community Norms
6. Socialization into the Community
7. Conflict and Community
8. Community Creation at Les Floralies
9. Age Borders and Community Creation
Notes
Bibliography
Index