Adolescence in Pacific Island societies

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Title:

Adolescence in Pacific Island societies

Author:

Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-

Publication Information:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1998]

Physical Description:

ix, 239 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

ASAO monograph series ; #16

ASAO monograph ; no. 16.

General Note:

This project began as a symposium at the 1990 Association for Social Anthropologists in Oceania meetings in Lihue, Hawaii.

Language:

English

Contents:

Introduction: studying adolescence in contemporary Pacific Island communities / Gilbert Herdt and Stephen C. Leavitt -- Adolescence in the Pacific: a biosocial view / Carol M. Worthman -- Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood in an Australian aboriginal community / Victoria K. Burbank and James S. Chisholm -- Horticulture and hierarchy: the youthful beautification of the body in the Paiela and Porgera valleys / Aletta Biersack -- Woman the sexual, a question of when: a study of Gebusi adolescence / Eileen M. Cantrell -- Coming of age on Vanatinai: gender, sexuality, and power / Maria Lepowsky -- Youth in Rotuma, then and now / Alan Howard -- The Bikhet mystique: masculine identity and patterns of rebellion among Bumbita adolescent males / Stephen C. Leavitt.

Subject Term:

Adolescence -- Oceania -- Cross-cultural studies.

Teenagers -- Oceania -- Cross-cultural studies.

Social change -- Oceania -- Cross-cultural studies.

Geographic Term:

Oceania -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies.

Added Author:

Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-

Leavitt, Stephen C., 1959-

Added Corporate Author:

Association of Social Anthropologists. Conference (1990 : Lihue, Hawaii)

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