Introduction: Aging and the Aged in Cultural Perspective - Andrei Simic Old Age in a Life-Term Social Arena: Some Chagga of Kilimanjaro in 1974 - Sally Folk Moore Winners and Losers: Aging Yugoslavs in a Changing World - Andrei Simic Youth and Changing in Central Mexico: One Day in the Life of Four Families of Migrants - Carlos G Velez A Symbol Perfected in Death: Continuity and Ritual in the Life and Death of an Elderly Jew - Barbara G Myerhoff El Senior Citizens Club: The Older Mexican-American in the Voluntary Association - Jose Cuellar Conclusion - Andrei Simic and Barbara Myerhoff