Susan Orpett Long

Biographic Data

ID628980
NAMESusan Orpett Long
GIVEN NAMESSusan Orpett
FAMILY NAMELong
SIGNATURELONG S O
AFFILIATIONSJohn Carroll University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS66
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX4

  • Clark E. Cunningham’s Cutting-edge Contributions to Research on Biomedical Appropriation in Southeast Asia

    Open AccessLorraine V Aragon, Susan Orpett Long et al.ARTICLEMoussons2021

    Clark Edward Cunningham (1934-2020), professor emeritus at the University of Illinois (USA), pioneered the subfields of medical anthropology and biomedicine in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Cunningham’s contributions to the anthropology of Thailand and Indonesia on health, social structure, symbolism, and houses, emerged from decades of fieldwork. His exemplary teaching and research influences endure. Beyond biographical details and …

  • Death in the Early Twenty-first Century

    Open AccessSébatien Penmellen Boret, Susan Long et al.BOOKDeath in the Early Twenty-first…2017

  • Death in the Early Twenty-first Century

    Sergei Kan, Susan Orpett Long et al.BOOKDeath in the Early Twenty-first…2017

  • Final Days

    Susan Orpett Long, Susan LongBOOKFinal Days2017

    In postindustrial societies, people must consciously define their individuality through the choices they make. Recently, death has become yet another realm of personal choice, making a "good death" one in which we die in our "own way." Does culture matter in these decisions? Final Days represents a new perspective on end-of-life decision-making, arguing that culture does make a difference but not as a checklist of customs or as the source of a mo…

  • Capturing Contemporary Japan

    Peter Cave, Sawa Kurotani et al.BOOKCapturing Contemporary Japan2014

  • Capturing Contemporary Japan

    Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S Roberts et al.BOOKCapturing Contemporary Japan2014

    What are people's life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to understanding Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively reveal a questioning of middle-class ideals once considered the essence of Japaneseness. In the postwar model household a man was expected to obtain a job at a major firm that offered life-long employment; his counterpart, the "profession…

  • Searching for life in death

    Susan Orpett Long, Susan Long et al.ARTICLEMortality2014

    Contemporary societies offer an increasing range of options for mortuary ritual and for dealing with the deceased person’s body. This study explores how a sample of couples coming from differing religious upbringings navigates these choices to reach compatible understandings of death ritual that is appropriate for them. Although some respondents found meaning in established practices of their or their spouse’s religious backgrounds, more commonly…

  • Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US

    Susan Long, Susan Orpett LongBOOKCaring for the Elderly in Japan…2013

    In an era of changing demographics and values, this volume provides a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective on the question of who cares for and about the elderly. The contributors reflect on research studies, experimental programmes and personal experience in Japan and the United States to explicitly compare how policies, practices and interpretations of elder care are evolving at the turn of the century

  • Ruminations on Studying Late Life in Japan

    Open AccessSusan Orpett Long, Susan LongARTICLEAnthropology & Aging2012

  • Cultural scripts for a good death in Japan and the United States

    Open AccessSusan Orpett Long, Susan LongARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2004Cited by: 29References: 18

  • Lives in Motion

    Taike Sugiyama Lebra, Susan Orpett Long et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica2001

    From the deathbed to the commuter railway station, from the marriage market to the fish market, from the baseball field to the grave, this volume explores the diversity of contemporary Japanese society by studying how people compose their families, their communities, and their own identities. Challenging fixed boundaries characteristic of institutional analysis, these essays comprise an anthropology of real people who age, who play, and whose liv…

  • Lives in Motion

    Hiroshi Aoyagi, Susan Orpett Long et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs2001

  • "Negotiating the "Good Death

    Open AccessSusan Orpett Long, Susan LongARTICLEEthnology2001Cited by: 3

    New technologies and new interpretations of the relation between the individual and society in postindustrial countries have led to an expanded set of options for how to die, including hospice, euthanasia, and physician-assisted suicide. This study claims that the ambivalence among ordinary people toward these new ways to die is best understood through the thick description of in-depth ethnographic research. In Japan, inconsistencies in policies,…

  • Gender and elder care

    Susan Orpett Long, S LongARTICLESocial Science Japan Journal2000

    The family has been the locus of caregiving in Japan. Wives and daughters-in-law have had the day-to-day responsibility for frail, elderly relatives. However, social changes are creating alternatives for elder care. Moreover, broad socioeconomic and demographic trends have led to increasing numbers of men taking on what is generally considered 'women's work'. Men now constitute 15% of caregivers to the elderly in Japan. In this paper, we examine …

  • Public Passages, Personal Passages, and Reluctant Passages

    Open AccessSusan Orpett Long, Susan LongARTICLEJournal of Medical Humanities2000

  • Husbands and sons in the United States and Japan

    Open AccessPhyllis Braudy Harris, Susan Orpett Long et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging Studies1999Cited by: 18References: 4

  • Men and elder care in Japan

    Open AccessPhyllis Braudy Harris, Susan Orpett Long et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…1998Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Daughter-in-law's burden

    Open AccessPhyllis Braudy Harris, Susan Orpett Long et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…1993Cited by: 7References: 18

  • Festival for a Cause

    Susan Orpett Long, Susan Long et al.ARTICLESociological Focus1993Cited by: 2References: 8

    This paper illustrates the contributions of three major social movement perspectives, macro, micro, and participant mobilization, to the cross-cultural analysis of social movements. It examines an emerging citizens' movement in Japan which aims to improve social welfare services in its region. A particular movement event, the International Forum, demonstrates the significance of symbol and ritual in understanding the formation of collective ident…

  • Family Change and the Life Course in Japan

    Anne E Imamura, Susan Orpett Long et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1988

    This book provides a valuable introduction to historical and sociological studies of family change in Japan. The author discusses the organization and assumptions of the academic disciplines, introduces resources for cross-cultural research on family change, and summarizes research results in areas such as infanticide, preindustrial mobility, family size and structure, family relations, mate selection, and the elderly. Summaries of Japanese studi…

  • Family Change and the Life Course in Japan

    Anne E Imamura, Susan Orpett Long et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1988Cited by: 1

  • Family Change and the Life Course in Japan

    Hyman Rodman, Susan Orpett Long et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1988

  • Roles, careers and femininity in biomedicine

    Open AccessSusan Orpett Long, Susan LongARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1986Cited by: 4References: 8

  • Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan

    Susan Orpett Long, Susan Long et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1986

  • Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan

    Susan Orpett Long, Susan Long et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1985Cited by: 1