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The golden wave
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ISBN: 0253011396 0253011507 9780253011503 1306166721 9781306166720 9780253011381 0253011388 9780253011398 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bloomington

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In December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents' stories of the disaster and its aftermath: the chaos and loss of the flood itself; the sense of community and leveling of social distinctions as people worked together to recover and regroup; and the local and national politics of foreign aid as the country began to rebuild. In The Golden Wave, Gamburd describes how the catastrophe changed social identities, econ


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Linked lives : elder care, migration, and kinship in Sri Lanka
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ISBN: 197881531X 1978815344 Year: 2021 Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press,

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When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it. The care work that grandparents do for grandchildren allows labor migration and contributes to the overall well-being of the extended family. The book considers the efforts migrant workers make to build and buy houses and the ways those rooms and walls constrain social activities. It outlines the strategies elders employ to age in place, and the alternatives they face in local old folks’ homes. Based on ethnographic work done over a decade, Michele Gamburd shows how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.


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Linked Lives
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ISBN: 9781978815346 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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Transitions and Transformations

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The Asian Migrant's Body

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