Caring for the People of the Clouds: Aging and Dementia in Oaxaca beautifully renders the caregiving practices of Zapotec-speaking families living with a relative afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or stroke. Set in Teotitlán del Valle, a world-renowned textile-weaving community twenty miles from Oaxaca City, Yahalom’s field site selection was astute: Teotitlán is at once strongly indigenous yet closely linked to the globalized world. One manifestation of this seeming incongruity is that Teotitecos regard Alzheimer’s and other forms of age-related cognitive decline as heretofore unknown illnesses caused by the demands of the global economy. Global integration has, moreover, upended traditional lifestyles, including patterns of family care. The monograph’s principal research question was: how might the culturally constituted experiences of aging and caregiving for mentally impaired elders in Teotitlán differ from those the author was familiar with in the U.S. Throughout his training and experience as a clinical

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优美的音乐政治：墨西哥尤卡坦州的Trova。加布里埃拉·巴尔加斯·塞蒂纳（Gabriela Vargas-Cetina）。塔斯卡卢萨（阿拉巴马州）：阿拉巴马大学出版社，2017年。203页。

照顾云端人士：瓦哈卡州的老龄化和痴呆症为讲扎波泰克语的家庭提供了照料，这些家庭生活着患有阿尔茨海默氏病，痴呆症或中风的亲戚。Yahalom坐落在距瓦哈卡市20英里的世界著名的纺织织造社区Teotitlándel Valle，它的现场选址非常精巧：Teotitlán既是土著，又与全球化世界息息相关。这种看似不一致的一种体现是Teotitecos认为阿尔茨海默氏病和其他形式的与年龄有关的认知能力下降是迄今为止由全球经济需求引起的未知疾病。此外，全球一体化已经颠覆了传统的生活方式，包括家庭护理方式。专着的主要研究问题是：