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| Other authors / contributors: | Durham, Deborah Lynn, 1958- editor.
Solway, Jacqueline S., editor.
American Anthropological Association. Annual Meeting (112th : 2013 : Chicago, Ill.), creator.
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| ISBN: | 9780253030191
0253030196
9780253029737
0253029732
9780253030009
0253030005
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| Notes: | "This book started with a double session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in November 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Although not all participants in that session could join in the edited publication, their papers at that session and our discussions of all our papers over meals and emails enriched our understanding of how anthropologists can approach the study of adulthood."--Page vii.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Over the past decade, complaints about an inability to achieve adulthood have rung out around the world. Young people across the globe, burdened with debt and unsatisfactory job prospects, are struggling to establish households, marry, and, perhaps most significantly, "feel" grown up. For them, achievement of adulthood has become increasingly elusive. Elusive Adulthoods poses the question "What is adulthood?" and examines how the field of anthropology has come to overlook this meaningful life transition. Through diverse case studies, contributors explore a variety of means by which adulthood can be recognized, such as negotiated relationships with others and as a form of upward class mobility. Contributors also grapple with the difficulties that come from a sense of having missed full adulthood - perhaps due to rapid social change or reluctance to embrace the necessary subordination to job and family. In each case, changing political and economic factors form the background for generational experiences and understandings of what it means to reach adulthood as globalization dictates changes to traditional rites of passage. -- from back cover.
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| Other form: | Print version: Elusive adulthoods. Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2017] 9780253029737
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