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Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2013 Anthropology & Aging uarterly September 2013 Q Volume 34, Number 2 Journal of the Association of Anthropology & Gerontology The Body AAGE Offi cers President Samantha Solimeo CADRE, Iowa City VA Medical Center 601 Highway 6 West Iowa City, IA 52246–2208 E-mail: [email protected] Immediate Past-President Lori L. Jervis Center for Applied Social Research, University of Oklahoma 2 Partners Place, 3100 Monitor Avenue, Rm 100, Norman, OK 73072 E-mail: [email protected] Treasurer Sharon Williams Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University 700 W. State St., West Lafayette, IN 47907 E-mail: [email protected] Secretary Eric Miller Program Director Education Abroad, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 526 Prices Fork Rd., Blacksburg, VA 26060 E-mail: [email protected] Elections Chair Rebecca Berman Buehler Center on Aging, Northwestern University 750 N. Lakeshore Drive, , Suite 601, Chicago, IL 60611-2611 E-mail: [email protected] AAGE Booth Coordinator Maria G. Cattell 486 Walnut Hill Road, Millersville, PA 17551 E-mail: [email protected] AAQ Editor-in-Chief Jason Danely Department of Anthropology, Rhode Island College 600 Mt Pleasant Ave. ,Gaige 111, Providence, RI 02909 E-mail: [email protected] 47 Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2013: 34 (3) Anthropology & Aging Quarterly (ISSN: 1559-6680) The official publication of the Association for Anthropology & Gerontology http://anthropologyandgerontology.com/ Editor-in-Chief Jason Danely Rhode Island College Associate Editor Book Reviews Editor Digital Content Intern Jonathan Skinner Joann Kovacich Samantha Grace University of University of Phoenix University of Arizona Roehampton Editorial Board Judith Corr Dawn Lehman Catherine O’Brien Grand Valley State University Minding Your Business MatherLifeWays Howie Giles Annette Leibing Margaret Perkinson Saint Louis University University of California Santa Barbara Université de Montreal Madelyn Iris Dena Shenk Mark Luborsky University of North Carolina, Charlotte Council for Jewish Elderly Wayne State University Lori L. Jervis Samantha Solimeo Athena McLean CADRE, Iowa City VA Medical Center University of Oklahoma Central Michigan Univeristy Sarah Lamb John Traphagan Jon Nussbaum University of Texas at Austin Brandeis University Pennsylvania State University Anthropology & Aging Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3, September 2013. This periodical is printed quarterly and is produced by the Association for Anthropology & Gerontology (AAGE). Subscriptions are available through membership in AAGE. Limited back issues are available for free download from the AAGE website. Correspondence regarding membership may be directed to the AAGE Treasurer, Sharon Williams, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, 700 W. State St., West Lafayette, IN 47907 ([email protected]). Information on annual membership fees and forms may be accessed through the AAGE website: http://anthropologyandgerontology.com/ For all other submissions and inquiries, contact the Editor, at journal @anthropologyandgerontology.com Cover photo credit: Judy Takács AAQ Design and Layout: Jason Danely Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2013: 34 (3) Anthropology & Aging Quarterly September 2013 Volume 34, Number 3 Contents Editor’s Introduction to the issue: the Aging Body 51 Jason Danely Commentary From Being to Ontogenetic Becoming: Commentary on Analytics of the Aging Body 52 Ender Ricart, University of Chicago Discussion 58 Katrina L. Moore, University of New South Wales, Australia Articles Postmenopausal Health and Disease from the Perspective of Evolutionary Medicine 61 Andrew W. Froehle, Wright State University Active Aging: Hiking, Walking, Health, and Healing 87 Rodney Steadman, University of Alberta, Candace I.J. Nykiforuk, University of Alberta, Helen Vallianatos, University of Alberta Population Aging as the Social Body in Representation and Real Life 100 Alexandra Crampton, Marquette University The Uncertain Bodies and Spaces of Aging in Place 113 Lauren Penney, University of Arizona The Familial Dyad between Aged Patients and Filipina Caregivers in Israel: Eldercare, Bodily-based Practices, and the Jewish Family 126 Keren Mazuz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Portfolio Fascinating Wisdom: “The Solon Senior Project” 135 Judy Takács, Painter 49 Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2013: 34 (3) Anthropology & Aging Quarterly September 2013 Volume 34, Number 2 Book Reviews ANNUAL REVIEW OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS 2010-2013 143-147 Volume 30, 2010: Focus on Biobehavioral Perspectives on Health in Late Life (Keith E. Whitfield, ed.) Linda J. Keilman , Michigan State University Volume 31, 2011: Pathways Through the Transitions of Care for Older Adults. (Peggye Dilworth-Anderson and Mary H. Palmer, eds.) Rachel Sona Reed, The Pasadena Village Volume 32, 2012: Emerging Perspectives on Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life (Bert Hayslip Jr., Gregory Smith, eds.) Lydia K. Manning, Concordia University, Chicago Volume 33, 2013. Healthy Longevity: A Global Approach (Jean-Marie Robine, Carol Jagger, and Eileen M. Crimmins, eds.) Richard Zimmer, Sonoma State University Transcending Dementia through the TTAP Method: A New Psychology of Art, Brain, and Cognition (Linda Levine Madori) 148 Jennifer A. Wagner, Bowling Green University Handbook of Life-Span Development (Karen L. Fingerman, Cynthia A. Berg, Jacqui Smith & Toni C. Antonucci, eds.) 148-150 Ruth N. Grendell, University of Phoenix/Point Loma Nazarene University Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives Second Edition. (Caolyn M. Aldwin and Diane Gilmer Fox) 151 Elisha R. Oliver, University of Oklahoma By Himself: The Older Man’s Experience of Widowhood. (Deborah K. Van den Hoonaard) 152-153 Lindsay L. Martin, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center The Validation Breakthrough: Simple Techniques for Communicating with People with Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias. Third Edition (Naomi Feil and Vicki de Klerk-Rubin) 153-154 Stacey L. Barnes, Marquette University Grandma, a Thousand Times (Teta, Alf Marra) (Film) 154-155 Philip Kao, University of Pittsburgh Information for Contributors and Submission Deadlines 143 50 Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2013: 34 (3) Editor’s Introduction to the Jason Danely, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology Issue: the Aging Body Rhode Island College [email protected] “The body” has long been a fertile topic for older subject, but it also expresses the joy found anthopological exploration, grounding the ways in working with those subjects, providing a space we consider everything from the molecular and for recognition and engagement that extends far genetic evolution of the human species, to the beyond the canvas. sense-mediated experience of culture, gender, sexuality and power. Aging too is an embodied As anthropologists, we are keenly aware of how process, though the body may also be used to presntations and practices of the aging body can contest and refashion aging in ways that dissociate bring about new reflections on the embodied from ageist stereotypes and the stigma of bodily self, bodily-mediated relationships, and cultural dependence. As a site of these contestations, it values. Since the topic of the body has already becomes a window into ourselves and our social been examined from numerous angles within life. How does old age and aging contribute to anthropology, we thought it appropriate to begin anthropological conversations on embodiment, this issue with a theoretical commentary by PhD bodily aesthetics, health, biopolitics, and longevity? student, Ender Ricart. Ricart brings a critical perspective to some of the fundamental paradigms Aging presents itself first through the body, but it is of the body in anthropology, and suggests ways a body woven into the fabric of cultural and social in which chronotopes of aging might help us to life. The temporality marked by the aging body expand and develop the field even more. Ricart’s may be linked to changes in attitudes and self- provocative commentary is followed by short perceptions, as in James Hillman’s vivid description response by Katrina Moore, whose work on aging from his bestseller The Force of Character and the and the body has also been based in Japan. Lasting Life (1999): AAQ received many inquires and submissions In later years, the pull of gravity takes over. for this issue, and is happy to publish five full Ambitious, upwardly mobile social climbing, career articles ranging from an a biological evolutionary and class, no longer offer glamour. You no longer perspective on menopause and women’s health need to be among the beautiful people or standon on (Froehle) to a phenomenological perspective the top deck shouting orders. Instead, the Great Sag: on Filipina caregivers and their Israeli patients eye pouches, double chins, jowls, pendent breasts, hanging skin on your upper arms, droopy belly, butt, (Mazuz). They reveal the centrality of the aging scrotum, labia; even the earlobes grow long toward body as located in social and political spaces of the floor. demography and home care (Penney, Crampton) as well as in biosocial communities of leisure If we listen closely, Hillman’s description is full (Steadman). of freedoms granted by the aging body; a kind of relief presented somatically by the graceful “Great We hope that this broad range of content is a useful Sag.” This month’s cover art and Portfolio feature resource for teaching and research, encouraging visualizes Hillman’s words. Takacs’ work not only and inspiring even more discussions in this field. demonstrates the
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