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Contesting Aging and Loss (review)

155 This book represents a welcome contribution to the growing Canadian literature critiquing the hegemony of the decline and loss paradigm that unfortunately underpins most discussions of aging, whether those discussions are scholarly or popular. The editors, Janice E. Graham and Peter H. Stephenson, both anthropologists, have assembled a collection of research organized around the intent of providing evidence that there is far more to aging than experiences of loss. Indeed, they challenge the whole notion that loss is inevitable in old age, and argue for the importance of privileging an emic perspective –– the views of those who are themselves experiencing old age – as opposed to the standard practice of privileging an etic perspective: the views offered by outsiders to the experience.