This biographical and, in part, phenomenological anthropology of older people in post-industrial England illuminates a local and generationally specifi c communitarian critique of and form of resistance against the process of individualisation. Rather than presenting communitarianism conventionally as an abstract political ideology or set of ideas about locality, it is conceptualised as emerging from and being reinforced by experiences of ageing, especially bodily ageing. It these respects, the article responds positively to Tatjana Thelen and Cati Coe’s call to take the anthropology of ageing out of its current condition of relative intellectual marginality, by recognising ageing and its related care arrangements as key structuring features within societies and political organisation and by treating them as a window onto understanding broad-scale social and political processes.

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自由基老化和死亡

在后工业化的英格兰，老年人的这种传记式的以及部分的现象学人类学说明了对个体化过程的抵抗的局部和世代特定的社群主义批判和形式。它不是将社群主义传统上作为一种抽象的政治意识形态或关于地方性的观念来呈现，而是被概念化为衰老（尤其是身体衰老）的经验出现并得到加强。在这些方面，本文对Tatjana Thelen和Cati Coe的呼吁做出了积极回应，呼吁将衰老人类学从其相对智力边缘化的现状中排除，