Monthly Archives: April 2012

The ‘Sandwich Generation’, Port William and Borneo

That ‘times change’ is a truism.  It’s one that has been occupying my mind now for several months.  And some of these thoughts came back to me this morning, after reading a short article  about “late-forming families” in Anthropology News … Continue reading

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Songs and Gender

A book arrived in the mail, from Duke University Press—unrequested, probably intended as a candidate for review in the journal Agriculture and Human Values, for which I am the book review editor.  The book, Unearthing Gender, is an ethnographic analysis … Continue reading

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An Ongoing Saga – this time, dementia

A year or so after my father died in 1994, my mother took up with a man whose wife had been her bosom pal prior to her death not long after my father’s.  My mother and her partner have been … Continue reading

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The Last Few Months of a Life

Two things prompted me to write about my father’s illness and death.  A friend suggested that I share my experience of eldercare, experiences that so many people are struggling with these days; and I saw a wonderful blog ( reviewed … Continue reading

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