Elusive Adulthoods :The Anthropology of New Maturities
Elusive Adulthoods :The Anthropology of New Maturities
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Published:
12 October, 2017
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Description
Elusive Adulthoods examines why, within the past decade, complaints about an inability to achieve adulthood have been heard around the world. By exploring the changing meaning of adulthood in Botswana, China, Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and the United States, contributors to this volume pose the problem of "What is adulthood?" and examine how the field of anthropology has come to overlook this meaningful stage in its studies. Through these case studies we discover different means of recognizing the achievement of adulthood, such as through negotiated relationships with others, including grown children, and as a form of upward class mobility. We also encounter the difficulties that come from a sense of having missed full adulthood, instead jumping directly into old age in the course of rapid social change, or a reluctance to embrace the stability of adulthood and necessary subordination to job and family. In all cases, the contributors demonstrate how changing political and economic factors form the background for generational experience and understanding of adulthood, which is a major focus of concern for people around the globe as they negotiate changing ways of living.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780253029737 |
| ISBN10 | 0253029732 |
| Number Of Pages | 210 |
| Item Weight | 494 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Indiana University Press |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
"An important collection that furthers anthropological work on life stages."—Susan Reynolds Whyte, author of Generations in Africa: Connections and Conflicts
Author's Bio
Deborah Durham is Professor of Anthropology at Sweet Briar College. She is coeditor, with Jennifer Cole, of Generations and Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy and Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of Children and Youth.
Jacqueline Solway is Professor Emeritus of the International Development Studies and Anthropology Departments of Trent University of Canada. She is editor of The Politics of Egalitarianism: Anthropological Theory and Practice.