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How to Make a Home in the City
Aug 06 2024
By Stacy Torres, author of At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban AmericaI never planned to study older adults. Old places that survived waves of gentrification initially fascinated me, as a lifelong New Yorker who had struggled to make ends meet and mourned the loss of beloved neighborho
Author Spotlight: Scott Stonington on The Changing Experience of Dying in a Globalizing World
Nov 11 2020
This post is part of our #RaisingOurVoices2020 blog series. Learn more at our American Anthropological Association virtual exhibit.When physician-anthropologist Scott Stonington set out to study end-of-life care in Thailand, he had no idea that his journey would take him so far from his work as