Growing Old in the Margins in Lima, Perú

Authors

  • Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori University of Michigan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2019.234

Keywords:

old age, care, abandonment, possibility, positionality

Abstract

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Published

2019-08-28

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