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ASAO
Monograph #10

Aging
and
Its Transformation:
Moving
Toward
Death
in
Pacific Societies

Edited
by
Dorothy Ayers Counts
and
David R Counts
 

 University Press
of
America

1985

University
of
Pittsburgh Press

1992

1. Introduction: Linking Concepts: Aging and Gender, Aging and Death Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R Counts

PART I: Aging and Gender

2. Koro and Kuia: Aging and Gender Among The Maori of New Zealand
Karen P Sinclair

3. Gender Complementarity, Aging and Reproduction Among New Zealand Pakeha Women
Michèle D Dominy

4. Kinship, Gender, and Aging on Pulap, Caroline Islands
Juliana Flinn

PART II: Aging, Gender and Dying

5. Ko'oua: Aging in the Marquesas Islands
John Kirkpatrick

6. Conceptions of Maturing and Dying In the 'Middle of Heaven'
Laurence Marshall Carucci

7. I'm not Dead Yet! Aging and Death: Process and Experience in Kaliai
Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R Counts

8. Gender, Aging, and Dying In an Egalitarian Society
Maria Lepowsky

PART III: Aging, Death and Dying

9. Passing Away and Loss of Life: Aging and Death Among the Managalase of Papua New Guinea
William H McKellin

10. Femsep's Last Garden: A Telefol Response to Mortality
Dan Jorgensen

11. Death by Sorcery: The Social Dynamics of Dying in Bariai, West New Britain
Naomi M Scaletta

PART IV: Conclusion

12. Conclusions: Aging and Dying in Pacific Societies: Implications for Theory in Social Gerontology
Victor W Marshall