Elusive adulthoods : the anthropology of new maturities / edited by Deborah Durham and Jacqueline Solway.

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, achi...

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Corporate Author: American Anthropological Association. Annual Meeting (Creator)
Other Authors: Durham, Deborah Lynn, 1958- (Editor)
Solway, Jacqueline S. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]
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Physical Description:vii, 205 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Elusive adulthoods : introduction / Deborah Durham -- The predicament of adulthood in Botswana / Jacqueline Solway -- Educated youth and the search for adulthood in post-war Sri Lanka / Dhana Hughes -- Learning to wait : schooling and the instability of adulthood for young men in Uganda / Claire Elisabeth Dungey and Lotte Meinert -- Adulthood and youth in a rapidly urbanizing Chinese county / Andrew B. Kipnis -- Inventing the rules : redefining moral agency among the first post-independence generation in Papua New Guinea / Karen Sykes -- "Just sitting," but not sitting still : delayed adulthood and changing gender dynamics in northern Sudan / Janice Boddy -- Between "too young" and "already old" : the fleeting adulthood of Russia's split generation / Anna Kruglova. 
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