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"An important collection that furthers anthropological work on life stages." -Susan Reynolds Whyte, author of Generations in Africa: Connections and Conflicts

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Acknowledgments
1. Elusive Adulthoods: Introduction / Deborah Durham
2. The Predicament of Adulthood in Botswana / Jacqueline Solway
3. Educated Youth and the Search for in Adulthood Post-war Sri Lanka / Dhana Hughes
4. Learning to Wait: Schooling and the Instability of Adulthood for Young Men in Uganda / Claire Elisabeth Dungey and Lotte Meinert
5. Adulthood and Youth in a Rapidly Urbanizing Chinese County / Andrew B. Kipnis
6. Inventing the Rules: Redefining Moral Agency amongst the First Post-Independence Generation in Papua New Guinea / Karen Sykes
7. "Just Sitting" But Not Sitting Still: Delayed Adulthood and Changing Gender Dynamics in Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy
8. Between 'Too Young' and 'Already Old': The Fleeting Adulthood of Perestroika Teens / Anna Kruglova
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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 12 October 2017
      ISBN-13 9780253030009
      978-0253030009
      ISBN-10 0253030005
      Also in:
      Anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "An important collection that furthers anthropological work on life stages." -Susan Reynolds Whyte, author of Generations in Africa: Connections and Conflicts

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      1. Elusive Adulthoods: Introduction / Deborah Durham
      2. The Predicament of Adulthood in Botswana / Jacqueline Solway
      3. Educated Youth and the Search for in Adulthood Post-war Sri Lanka / Dhana Hughes
      4. Learning to Wait: Schooling and the Instability of Adulthood for Young Men in Uganda / Claire Elisabeth Dungey and Lotte Meinert
      5. Adulthood and Youth in a Rapidly Urbanizing Chinese County / Andrew B. Kipnis
      6. Inventing the Rules: Redefining Moral Agency amongst the First Post-Independence Generation in Papua New Guinea / Karen Sykes
      7. "Just Sitting" But Not Sitting Still: Delayed Adulthood and Changing Gender Dynamics in Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy
      8. Between 'Too Young' and 'Already Old': The Fleeting Adulthood of Perestroika Teens / Anna Kruglova
      Index

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