Adolescence in Pacific Island societies / edited by Gilbert Herdt and Stephen C. Leavitt.
- ix, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
- ASAO monograph series ; # 16. .
- ASAO monograph ; no. 16. .
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.