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Anthropological gerontology comes of age

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  1. Institute for Urban and Applied Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California, 90089-0661, University Park, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.A.

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Simić, A. Anthropological gerontology comes of age. J Cross-Cultural Gerontol 1, 325–330 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00116131

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