Rubić, Tihana.
(2018).
Practices and narrations of aging in Zagreb.
Narodna umjetnost : hrvatski časopis za etnologiju i folkloristiku, 55(2).
pp. 7-27.
ISSN 1848-865X
Abstract
The paper presents an ethnological and cultural-anthropological refl ection of aging and
possible approaches to age research based on preliminary fi eld observations of practice
and narratives on age and aging in the Croatian capital, Zagreb. The anthropology of aging, the anthropology of the city and the anthropology of family and kinship, as well as the
concepts of city-making, public space and active aging, are employed. The paper starts
with a description of previous sociocultural research of age. The concept of active aging is
critically discussed, and the practices and narrations of age in the context of the Croatian
capital are ethnographically described. Attention is given to the specifi c characteristics of
informal and formal practices of old people in the city and advertising discourse within
public space advertising. The study presents an analysis of the relationship between aging
and the city, age and urban (public) space, and a refl ection on the “active aging” paradigm.
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