Anthropology and Aging

23/01/2024

Please join us in welcoming several new editorial members who will take the lead in steering the journal and expanding the breadth of its intellectual reach. With their diverse expertise in anthropology and applied fields in the social sciences, we are confident that these new team members will continue to ensure that A&A publishes high-quality academic research that reflects a range of perspectives, theories, methodologies, and epistemes

Anthropology & Aging welcomes new editorial team members! 2024-01-22 We are excited to announce some exciting changes to the editorial team at Anthropology & Aging. Manonita Ghosh – Editor-in-Chief Dr Ghosh is a Research Fellow at the Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab within the School of Arts and ...

21/12/2023

This is a list of books available for review in Anthropology & Aging. If you are interested in reviewing one of these titles or have a suggestion for a book that you would like to see reviewed that is not included in this list, please send this information, including the book format you prefer (we e...

21/12/2023

[Call for Book Reviewers]
Are you interested in reviewing new books and multimodal works? Then Anthropology & Aging would like to hear from you! Check out our updated list of fascinating recent publications, and find all the practical information on the journal’s website. If you have other suggestions, please reach out!

This is a list of books available for review in Anthropology & Aging. If you are interested in reviewing one of these titles or have a suggestion for a book that you would like to see reviewed that is not included in this list, please send this information, including the book format you prefer (we e...

20/12/2023

[New issue alert, Vol 44, No. 3]
https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-age/issue/view/44

This final issue of 2023 includes three original research articles: including the Margaret Clark Award-winning piece that offers a creative reconfiguration of the term ‘non-disclosure’ to portray the ambivalent lived experiences following an Alzheimer’s diagnosis in Denmark. The other two original articles examine questions of kinship, gendered care practices, loneliness and belonging through engaged ethnography.

Also includes three Book Reviews of works that examine questions of digitality in Ireland; explore the role of movement in institutional care settings in Australia; and provide an intimate ethnography of death rituals and mourning practices in Japan.

Cover Design by Yvonne Wallace (University of Toronto); Original Cover Design Template by Katie Rodriguez (George Mason University)

13/09/2023

[New Issue Alert] Vol. 44, No. 2 is hot off the press! https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-age/issue/view/43

This Special Issue highlights original research articles generated from the five-year, multi-country project, the Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Aging (ASSA), based at University College London and led by Professor Daniel Miller. Through five compelling articles (and an excellent introduction piece by Miller), 11 of the project’s researchers offer comparative insights on active aging, intergenerational relationships, grandparenting, ‘the transportal home,’ and the ambivalence of digitalities through engaged ethnographic methods.

This issue also includes our regular researcher-interview section, Aging Talks, as well as several reviews of books relevant to the anthropology of aging. We welcome your comments and suggestions, and we hope that you will choose A&A as your next publishing venue!

Cover Design by Yvonne Wallace (University of Toronto); Original Cover Design Template by Katie Rodriguez (George Mason University)

15/06/2023

[New Issue Alert]

We are excited to announce that Vol. 44, No. 1 has just been published! https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-age/issue/view/41

This first issue of 2023 features three original research articles; an insightful Commentary piece on the growing field of visual/multimodal anthropology of aging as well as a Research Report. As always, our Book Reviews section includes critical reviews of a range of monographs focusing on diverse cultural contexts.

And FINALLY, as announced earlier, we are excited to launch our new Debate section with an accompanying podcast! All of A&A's articles, special sections, and the MP3 of the podcast are free to download.

We hope that you will enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

You may also notice that A&A has a new look and some new features. The journal’s software required an upgrade this year, which provided us with an opportunity to change the site design and layout as well as to enhance the overall functionality for authors, reviewers, and our editorial team. We are still in transition, but if you experience any problems and/or have ideas for further improvements, please let us know – [email protected]

We welcome your comments and suggestions, and we hope that you will choose A&A as your next publishing venue.

29/04/2023

We are excited to announce the DEBATE- a new annual section in our upcoming issue, 44(1). For the Debate, researchers Mark Luborsky, Sarah Lamb, Jason Danely, and Cati Coe, revisit the late Sharon Kaufman’s “The Ageless Self.” They reveal the strengths and weaknesses of ageless identities as an analytical concept, and motivate their position in favor or against the ageless self, offering adaptations and viable alternatives for future research. The live version of the debate will be made available as a podcast on the AAGE website. Watch this space!

01/02/2023

We are excited to announce that we have two new members joining our editorial team at Anthropology & Aging!

Yvonne Wallace joins A&A as the editorial assistant. Yvonne is a PhD Candidate in social anthropology at the University of Toronto and part of the Collaborative Specialization in Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course. Her research in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, explores aging and urban change through themes of difference, urban sociality, and time and temporality.

Melanie Z. Plasencia joins A&A as an Associate Editor. She is a scholar of race, ethnicity and aging, and she received her Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in August 2022. Her research qualitatively examines how older Latina/o/xs in the U.S. negotiate the challenges of aging in the context of extreme poverty, deteriorating health, and diminishing government support. Presently, she is the César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College and will teach for the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies in Spring 2023, while she works on her book manuscript, tentatively titled "Aging on the Hudson." Her research can be read in the Journals Social Problems and The Gerontologist, and has been supported by the Center for Race and Gender and the Ford Foundation. Amy Clotworthy Tannistha Samanta

22/11/2022

We are thrilled to announce that we have now published issue 43(2) of Anthropology & Aging! As always, this new issue includes critically analyzed, profoundly affective ethnographic stories from diverse contexts.

Specifically, this issue features three Original Articles including the Margaret Clark Award-winning piece on offering a sensorial ethnography of older Andulasians' engagement with fiestas and spirituality; two Research Reports drawing on practice-related dimensions of care networks among tribal communities in rural Taiwan and structural constraints in staying 'active' among older persons in the Aomori Prefecture (Japan); and, an evocative Portfolio piece that, through an autoethnographic narrative, charts the promise of using a multimodal approach to storytelling in anthropology. Finally, this issue includes 9 Book Reviews covering questions of aging masculinities in U.S fiction to shifting the youthful gaze of smartphone usage to discussing frameworks of disability and aging in anthropology.

Read the issue here: https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/issue/view/40

05/09/2022

Two of the book reviews that will be published in the 43(2) issue of Anthropology & Aging (October/November) are now available in early view on the AAGE website (https://anthropologyandgerontology.com/early-view-book-reviews-from-anthropology-and-aging/)! Francisca Yuen-ki Lai gives a comprehensive and critical overview of the recent volume "Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life" (Palgrave 2020), edited by Bernike Pasveer, Oddgeir Synness, and Ingunn Moser. "Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption" by Deborah J. Cohan (Rutgers University Press 2020) is here carefully digested by Christina Barmon. More soon in a new issue of A&A!

17/07/2022

Good news for students! The deadline extended for the Margaret Clark Student Award. Submit your paper up to 15th of August!
More information can still be found here:
https://anthropologyandgerontology.com/2022-margaret-clark-award/

AAGE is pleased to announce its annual call for outstanding graduate and undergraduate student papers to compete for the 2022 Margaret Clark Award. This award supports the continued pursuit of work following the example of M. Margaret Clark, a pioneer in the multidisciplinary study of socio-cultural...

27/06/2022

We are looking for outstanding student work! Winners of the Margaret Clark Award can get their work published in Anthropology & Aging. Submission guidelines can be found here. July 15th Deadline-- good luck! https://anthropologyandgerontology.com/2022-margaret-clark-award/

31/03/2022

We are excited to announce that volume 43, issue (1) of Anthropology & Aging has just been published!

https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/issue/view/39/showToc

This first issue of 2022 features three original research articles that, respectively, examine the theoretical utility of the concept “technologies of ascription” in the anthropological work on dementia; technocare and women in Japan; and the intersections of religion, morality, and gender through a critical reading of blogs/online forums. The issue also includes an insightful Commentary piece that highlights questions of aging, prison systems, and justice as well as a Research Report that traces a poignant journey of older veterans participating in the VetsRoll program. Finally, our Book Reviews section includes critical reviews of a range of monographs across diverse cultural contexts.

We hope that you will enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together! We welcome your comments/suggestions and hope that you will choose A&A as your next publishing venue.

Sincerely,
- the A&A Editorial Team

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21/03/2022

Excellent new books and documentary films in the field of anthropology and aging are waiting impatiently for reviewers with a critical eye and a sharp pen to introduce them to a wider audience. If you are interested in reviewing for the Journal of Anthropology and Aging - you are welcome! - check out the recently updated list of books for review at https://anthropologyandgerontology.com/journal/ (link at the bottom of the page). Don't hesitate to contact Christine Verbruggen ([email protected]) if you are interested in one of the suggested titles, if you have another book in the field that had escaped our attention or if you have any questions on the review process.

20/03/2022

Excited to announce that our first issue of 2022, Issue 43(1) will be out any moment! Here's a curtain-raiser:

Researchers Sébastien Libert and Paul Higgs (Division of Psychiatry, University College London) in their provocative piece explore how a dementia diagnosis acquires its symbolic power of exclusion in later life through an ethnography of cognitive rehabilitation therapy in two memory clinics in a southern European nation. At A&A we believe their article "Technologies of ascription: how does a dementia diagnosis acquire its symbolic power of exclusion in later life?" makes significant theoretical advances in the anthropological study of age and aging.

Stay tuned for more!

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10/12/2021

Hello A&A readers and authors: We are thrilled to share that the following esteemed scholars will be joining our editorial advisory board and will help guide our mission to make A&A more contemporary, diverse, and inclusive of a variety of perspectives. Welcome aboard!

Maria G. Cattell is a leading scholar in studies of gender and intergenerational knowledge exchange in Africa. Now working as an independent researcher, she is a founding member of the African Gerontological Society and served as president of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, president of the Association for Africanist Anthropology (AFAA), co-chair of the Commission on Aging and the Aged of the IUAES, and co-convener of the Women’s Caucus of the African Studies Association.

Cati Coe is a professor of anthropology at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA). With a focus on global health, care regimes, migration, and aging with a focus on West Africa, she is interested in how ideas and discourses gain currency in and become routinized by institutions—whether in school curricula, immigration laws, or new forms of elder care—and how people experience these institutionalized discourses and routines through their perspectives and bodily habits.

Piet van Eeuwijk is a social anthropologist and historian with expertise in medical anthropology, the anthropology of aging, and political ecology/sustainable development with a focus on East Africa and Southeast Asia. He is a senior lecturer and senior researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel; the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), University of Basel; the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich; the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern; and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg.

http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/announcement/view/20

Maria G. Cattell is a leading scholar in studies of gender and intergenerational knowledge exchange in Africa. Now working as an independent researcher, she is a founding member of the African Gerontological Society and served as president of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, preside...

30/11/2021

We are delighted to announce that we are moving from two to three issues per year starting in 2022! As always, we welcome contributions that offer practice-oriented, theory-driven, and ethnographically rich perspectives on people’s experiences of aging and the life course. We look forward to publishing YOUR insightful anthropological contribution, so please consider submitting your work to Anthropology & Aging. The journal publishes a wide range of article types (see here: https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/about/editorialPolicies ).
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.

Policy and scholarly commentaries are thoughtful and reflective essays on current events or social policies pertaining to aging and culture. Commentaries provide authors with an opportunity to discuss theoretical, ethical and other time-sensitive topical issues which do not lend themselves to a full...

12/11/2021

Our latest issue, Vol 42(2) is out!
https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/issue/view/38

This issue includes an introductory note from the new co-editors on their intellectual commitment to strengthen the journal's diversity of research and plurality of perspectives; a new feature titled "Aging Talks"; and 7 free-standing articles that draw on rich ethnographic material from a range of cultural contexts.

The issue also features our other standard sections, including Research Reports that highlight the applied dimension of theoretical questions on aging; a Portfolio section; and 7 Book Reviews on a diverse set of fascinating monographs.

We hope that you will enjoy reading the issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together!

- The A&A editorial team

29/10/2021

Excited to announce that our Fall 2021 issue will be out any moment! Here's a curtain-raiser.

Margaret Clark Award (2020) winner Yan Zhang (Harvard University) in her poignant ethnography examines the experience of "Cinderella Men" (or nuannan) in urban China who unwittingly challenge, disrupt and alter the gendered practice of caregiving. What motivates such practices? Does gender really matter in caregiving? More significantly, what are the individual and cohort level variations? Asks Zhang in her piece, "Cinderella Men": Husband and Son Caregivers for Elders with Dementia in Shanghai

Stay tuned for more!

28/10/2021

07/10/2021

New books available for review! Brand new titles on masculinities, intergenerational relations, life-writing, dementia, anti-aging and more!

https://anthropologyandgerontology.com/journal/anthropology-aging-books-for-review/

Anthropology & Aging Books for Review Last updated October 6, 2020 This is a list of books available for review in Anthropology & Aging. If you are interested in reviewing one of these titles or have a suggestion for a book that you would like to see reviewed, please send this information, including...

04/07/2021

Read the special issue now! Contending with the Hourglass: Time, Reproduction, and the Problematization of Ageing, edited by Anindita Majumdar with articles by
Lynnette Leidy Sievert, Laura Huicochea-Gómez, Diana Cahuich-Campos, Lynn Morrison, Daniel E. Brown
Lauren Jade Martin
Anindita Majumdar
Emily Wentzell
Charlotte Kroløkke
Paro Mishra, Ravinder Kaur

enjoy!
http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/issue/view/37

29/05/2021

The list of books for review in the Journal of Anthropology and Aging, has recently been updated with the latest (book and documentary) releases in the field of anthropology and aging! You can access the list via the AAGE website, or via the link below.
We welcome scholars and professionals from different disciplines engaging with aging and the life course, to share their critical appraisal of recent publications in their field of interest. To express your interest in one of the books or documentaries, or to propose a publication that is not yet included in the list, please contact Christine Verbruggen ([email protected]).

https://anthropologyandgerontology.com/journal/anthropology-aging-books-for-review/

Anthropology & Aging Books for Review Last updated October 6, 2020 This is a list of books available for review in Anthropology & Aging. If you are interested in reviewing one of these titles or have a suggestion for a book that you would like to see reviewed, please send this information, including...

04/04/2021

Editor-in-chief position opening for the journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics Education!

Applications due April 30.
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/wgge-callforeditor-in-chief/

Call for Editor-in-Chief Gerontology & Geriatrics Education Deadline30 April 2021 About the JournalThe Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Program, Publications, and Products Committee is announcing a search for the position of Editor-in-Chief. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, the official jo...

25/12/2020

We proudly present our “COVID-19 and Aging Bodies”-section in the newest issue of the Journal of Anthropology and Aging (http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/issue/view/36)!
The section features 11 brilliant articles on the effects of COVID-19 on aging bodies across the globe (Russia, Canada, US, Belgium, India, South Africa, Denmark, Japan).

The authors provide timely and necessary accounts of the diverse faces of suffering and resilience, restriction and mobility, loneliness and togetherness of - and with - older adults during the pandemic. Across the articles, COVID-19 appears as both a rupture of all practices of living and dying, an amplifier of structural socio-economic disparities, and an opportunity for questioning the unquestioned in the field of anthropology and aging.

We warmly invite you to work with this opportunity and to share your thoughts and fieldwork experiences in pandemic times with us. You are very welcome to submit these reflections to the “Age of COVID-19” blog series, a joint publication of AAGE and Somatosphere (https://anthropologyandgerontology.com/aage-news/the-age-of-covid-19/). For questions and submissions, please contact Narelle Warren ([email protected]).
Be safe, be well!

15/12/2020

Excited to announce the publication of Anthropology & Aging 41(2), a special issue "The Ends of Life" guest edited by Iza Kavedžija. Cover designed by Katie Rodriguez (George Mason University)featuring painting by Lou Bettina Klein, in conversation with ethnographic work by Annelieke Driessen. https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/issue/view/36

18/08/2020

Search for new co-editor at Anthropology & Aging! Send along CV and letter of interest by September 20, 2020, to be considered.

02/08/2020

Call for Abstracts! The 11th Annual International Conference on Stigma, "Faces of Stigma," will be hosted virtually by Howard University in Washington, D.C. this November.

01/05/2020

Anthropolgy Alumna Teresa “Lilly” White Covid-19 Condolence Specialist in New York http://hs.umt.edu/anthropology/stories/lilly-white-covid.php

09/03/2020

Dr. Aaron Seaman (University of Iowa) is the next President-Elect of AAGE! Congratulations! https://anthropologyandgerontology.com/aages-new-president-elect-aaron-seaman/