Life Support in High Age
This article explores how very old people in Northern Norway supported life before economic modernization, from nineteenth-century census registrations and ethnographic sources. Very few lived alone. About 80 percent were primarily supported by living with relations—family, kin, or nonkin, participa...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0363199012472167 2024-10-13T14:09:44+00:00 Life Support in High Age Northern Norway 1865–1900 Elstad, Ingunn 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199012472167 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0363199012472167 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0363199012472167 en eng SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Family History volume 38, issue 2, page 140-165 ISSN 0363-1990 1552-5473 journal-article 2013 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0363199012472167 2024-09-17T04:39:16Z This article explores how very old people in Northern Norway supported life before economic modernization, from nineteenth-century census registrations and ethnographic sources. Very few lived alone. About 80 percent were primarily supported by living with relations—family, kin, or nonkin, participating with work and experience, the majority through a retirement agreement. In the northernmost parts, where Sámi traditions of land ownership dominated, retirement was uncommon. Other very old supported life from independent work or public relief. Old women with few ties were at particular risk of destitution. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Norway Sámi SAGE Publications Norway Journal of Family History 38 2 140 165 |
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This article explores how very old people in Northern Norway supported life before economic modernization, from nineteenth-century census registrations and ethnographic sources. Very few lived alone. About 80 percent were primarily supported by living with relations—family, kin, or nonkin, participating with work and experience, the majority through a retirement agreement. In the northernmost parts, where Sámi traditions of land ownership dominated, retirement was uncommon. Other very old supported life from independent work or public relief. Old women with few ties were at particular risk of destitution. |
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