Folk Art And Aging

Author : Jon Kay
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253022202

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Folk Art and Aging by Jon Kay Pdf

Growing old doesn’t have to be seen as an eventual failure but rather as an important developmental stage of creativity. Offering an absorbing and fresh perspective on aging and crafts, Jon Kay explores how elders choose to tap into their creative and personal potential through making life-story objects. Carving, painting, and rug hooking not only help seniors to cope with the ailments of aging and loneliness but also to achieve greater satisfaction with their lives. Whether revived from childhood memories or inspired by their capacity to connect to others, meaningful memory projects serve as a lens for focusing on, remaking, and sharing the long-ago. These activities often help elders productively fill the hours after they have raised their children, retired from their jobs, and/or lost a loved one. These individuals forge new identities for themselves that do not erase their earlier lives but build on them and new lives that include sharing scenes and stories from their memories.

Author : Jon Kay
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253037107

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The Expressive Lives of Elders by Jon Kay Pdf

Essays examining the power of traditional arts and folklore in the lives of the elderly in the United States. Can traditional arts improve an older adult’s quality of life? Are arts interventions more effective when they align with an elder’s cultural identity? In The Expressive Lives of Elders, Jon Kay and contributors from a diverse range of public institutions argue that such mediations work best when they are culturally, socially, and personally relevant to the participants. From quilting and canning to weaving and woodworking, this book explores the role of traditional arts and folklore in the lives of older adults in the United States, highlighting the critical importance of ethnographic studies of creative aging for both understanding the expressive lives of elders and for designing effective arts therapies and programs. Each case study in this volume demonstrates how folklore and traditional practices help elders maintain their health and wellness, providing a road map for initiatives to improve the lives and well-being of America’s aging population.

Author : David P. Shuldiner
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015041062731

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Folklore, Culture, and Aging by David P. Shuldiner Pdf

A resource guide by and about elders and the process of aging, this volume provides a list of over 1,500 references, all annotated, covering a wide range of subject areas. It is organized under such topics as Customs and Beliefs, Narratives, Traditional Arts, Health and Healing, and Applied Folklore, and is further divided into regional and topical subheadings. It also features works on methods and concepts in field research in folklore, oral history, and community studies, a chapter on general works from other fields of interest, as well as a chapter on films. The introduction offers not only a description of the nature and role of elders as creators and carriers of culture, but also a challenge to readers—reflected in the broad range of materials cited—defying both narrow conceptions of aging and the aged, and limited notions about the full scope of expressive culture addressed by folklore studies.

Author : Jon Kay
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253022169

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Folk Art and Aging by Jon Kay Pdf

Growing old doesn't have to be seen as an eventual failure but rather as an important developmental stage of creativity. Offering an absorbing and fresh perspective on aging and crafts, Jon Kay explores how elders choose to tap into their creative and personal potential through making life-story objects. Carving, painting, and rug hooking not only help seniors to cope with the ailments of aging and loneliness but also to achieve greater satisfaction with their lives. Whether revived from childhood memories or inspired by their capacity to connect to others, meaningful memory projects serve as a lens for focusing on, remaking, and sharing the long-ago. These activities often help elders productively fill the hours after they have raised their children, retired from their jobs, and/or lost a loved one. These individuals forge new identities for themselves that do not erase their earlier lives but build on them and new lives that include sharing scenes and stories from their memories.

Author : Amy Gorman
Publisher : PAL Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0978519205

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Aging Artfully by Amy Gorman Pdf

Aging Arfully: 12 Profiles of Remarkable Women, Visual and Performing Artists aged 85-105, illustrated with photos from their lives. Includes a CD, "7 Songs of Women," from Aging Artfully, by composer Frances Kandl.

Author : Jason Baird Jackson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253023612

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Material Vernaculars by Jason Baird Jackson Pdf

The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this volume offer revealing insights into the significance of such practices as scrapbooking, folk art produced by the elderly, the wedding coat in Osage ceremonial exchanges, temporary huts built during the Jewish festival of Sukkot, and Kiowa women's traditional roles in raiding and warfare. While emphasizing local vernacular culture, the contributors point to the ways that culture is put to social ends within larger social networks and within the stream of history. While attending to the material world, these case studies explicate the manner in which the tangible and intangible, the material and the meaningful, are constantly entwined and co-constituted.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Older people
ISBN : UOM:39015073357371

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Developments in Aging by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging Pdf

Author : Jon Kay
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780253037091

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The Expressive Lives of Elders by Jon Kay Pdf

Can traditional arts improve an older adult’s quality of life? Are arts interventions more effective when they align with an elder’s cultural identity? In The Expressive Lives of Elders, Jon Kay and contributors from a diverse range of public institutions argue that such mediations work best when they are culturally, socially, and personally relevant to the participants. From quilting and canning to weaving and woodworking, this book explores the role of traditional arts and folklore in the lives of older adults in the United States, highlighting the critical importance of ethnographic studies of creative aging for both understanding the expressive lives of elders and for designing effective arts therapies and programs. Each case study in this volume demonstrates how folklore and traditional practices help elders maintain their health and wellness, providing a road map for initiatives to improve the lives and well-being of America’s aging population.

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190840648

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The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies by Simon J. Bronner Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, culture, history, and society. Forty-three comprehensive and diverse chapters delve into significant themes and methods of folklore and folklife study; established expressions and activities; spheres and locations of folkloric action; and shared cultures and common identities. Beyond the longstanding arenas of academic focus developed throughout the 350-year legacy of folklore and folklife study, contributors at the forefront of the field also explore exciting new areas of attention that have emerged in the twenty-first century such as the Internet, bodylore, folklore of organizations and networks, sexual orientation, neurodiverse identities, and disability groups. Encompassing a wide range of cultural traditions in the United States, from bits of slang in private conversations to massive public demonstrations, ancient beliefs to contemporary viral memes, and a simple handshake greeting to group festivals, these chapters consider the meanings in oral, social, and material genres of dance, ritual, drama, play, speech, song, and story while drawing attention to tradition-centered communities such as the Amish and Hasidim, occupational groups and their workaday worlds, and children and other age groups. Weaving together such varied and manifest traditions, this handbook pays significant attention to the cultural diversity and changing national boundaries that have always been distinctive in the American experience, reflecting on the relative youth of the nation; global connections of customs brought by immigrants; mobility of residents and their relation to an indigenous, urbanized, and racialized population; and a varied landscape and settlement pattern. Edited by leading folklore scholar Simon J. Bronner, this handbook celebrates the extraordinary richness of the American social and cultural fabric, offering a valuable resource not only for scholars and students of American studies, but also for the global study of tradition, folk arts, and cultural practice.

Author : David P. Shuldiner
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : IND:30000057521985

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Folklore, Culture, and Aging by David P. Shuldiner Pdf

A resource guide by and about elders and the process of aging, this volume provides a list of over 1,500 references, all annotated, covering a wide range of subject areas. It is organized under such topics as Customs and Beliefs, Narratives, Traditional Arts, Health and Healing, and Applied Folklore, and is further divided into regional and topical subheadings. It also features works on methods and concepts in field research in folklore, oral history, and community studies, a chapter on general works from other fields of interest, as well as a chapter on films. The introduction offers not only a description of the nature and role of elders as creators and carriers of culture, but also a challenge to readers—reflected in the broad range of materials cited—defying both narrow conceptions of aging and the aged, and limited notions about the full scope of expressive culture addressed by folklore studies.

Author : Sandra Grady
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780299303242

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Improvised Adolescence by Sandra Grady Pdf

Explores how teens from southern Somalia, who spent much of their childhood in East African refugee camps, are adapting to resettlement in the American Midwest, negotiating two sets of cultural expectations, those of the resettled Somali Bantu community and those of the surrounding US culture.

Author : Martin S. Lindauer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781441992024

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Aging, Creativity and Art by Martin S. Lindauer Pdf

This volume explores the strengths and opportunities of old age as these are manifested by the accomplishments of aging artists, late artistic works, and elderly arts audiences. It critically examines the psychology of creativity, cognitive development, and gerontology, and will be of interest to a wide range of professionals and students in these fields.

Author : Patrick L. McKee,Heta Kauppinen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015251799

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The Art of Aging by Patrick L. McKee,Heta Kauppinen Pdf

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813187297

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The Carver's Art by Simon J. Bronner Pdf

Chains carved from a single block of wood, cages whittled with wooden balls rattling inside—all "made with just a pocketknife"—are among our most enduring folk designs. Who makes them and why? what is their history? what do they mean for their makers, for their viewers, for our society? Simon J. Bronner portrays four wood carvers in southern Indiana, men who had been transplanted from the rural landscapes of their youth to industrial towns. After retiring, they took up a skill they remembered from childhood. Bronner discusses how creativity helped these men adjust to change and how viewers' responses to carving reflect their own backgrounds. By recording the narratives of these men's lives, the stories and anecdotes that laced their conversation, Bronner finds new insight into the functions and symbolism of traditional craft. Including anew illustrated afterword in which the author discusses recent developments in the carver's art, this new edition will appeal to carvers, scholars, and anyone interested in traditional woodworking.

Author : Marie De Hennezel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101567029

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The Art of Growing Old by Marie De Hennezel Pdf

A groundbreaking approach to aging from one of France's best- known clinical psychologists. How should we accept growing old? It's an inevitable progression and yet in Western society the very subject of aging is often taboo and shrouded in anxiety and shame. Not anymore, says Marie de Hennezel, an internationally renowned clinical psychologist and bestselling author. Now that our lives are longer and richer than ever before, it's imperative to demystify our greatest fear and cultivate a positive awareness of aging. In this timely and essential book, de Hennezel offers a fresh perspective on the art of growing old. She confronts head-on the inevitable grief we sustain at the loss of our youth and explains how refusing to age and move forward in life is actually what makes us become old. Combining personal anecdotes with psychological theory, philosophy, and eye-opening scientific research from around the world, she shows why we should look forward to embracing everything aging has to offer in terms of human and spiritual enrichment. The Art of Growing Old is a thought-provoking, brave, and uplifting meditation on the later years as they should be lived.