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Adolescence in Pacific Island societies / edited by Gilbert Herdt and Stephen C. Leavitt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ASAO monograph ; no. 16.Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998Description: ix, 239 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 082294068X (cloth : acidfree paper)
  • 0822956721 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.2350995
LOC classification:
  • GN663. A53 1998
Contents:
Introduction : studying adolescence in contemporary Pacific Island communities / Gilbert Herdt and Stephen Leavitt -- Adolescence in the Pacific : a biosocial view / Carol Worthman -- Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood in an Australian Aboriginal community / Victoria Burbank and James 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 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 adolsecent males / Stephen Leavitt.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 305.2350995 ADO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A256516B
Book South Campus South Campus Main Collection 305.2350995 ADO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A324996B

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-234) and index.

Introduction : studying adolescence in contemporary Pacific Island communities / Gilbert Herdt and Stephen Leavitt -- Adolescence in the Pacific : a biosocial view / Carol Worthman -- Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood in an Australian Aboriginal community / Victoria Burbank and James 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 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 adolsecent males / Stephen Leavitt.

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