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https://doi.org/10.32458/ei.29.10

Anything Can be Endured, Except Loneliness, Loneliness is Killing Me... A Contribution to the Ethnography of Aging in Rural Areas

Ana-Marija Vukušić orcid.org/0000-0003-2579-6052 ; Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Zagreb

Sažetak

The author deals with the problems of isolation and loneliness in rural, sparsely populated parts of Croatia based on the findings of research conducted in the Dalmatian Hinterland. The first part of the article is dedicated to selected theoretical insights on social isolation and loneliness, and then, by presenting the comments of people she met in the field on their own everyday life, the author deals with the diversity or subjective characteristics of the ways in which loneliness and isolation (as well as the related feelings of uselessness, feeling “redundant” and insecurity in existing relationships, to name a few) can manifest themselves in the lives of the elderly.

Ključne riječi

ethnography; loneliness; social isolation; aging; the Dalmatian Hinterland

Hrčak ID:

325675

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/325675

Datum izdavanja:

23.12.2024.

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