1st Edition

Youth Cultures A Cross-cultural Perspective

Edited By Vered Amit, Helena Wulff Copyright 1995
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1995, Youth Cultures critically studies an anthropologically neglected population: the youth. The book broadens the scope for analysing young people’s behaviour by moving away from notions of resistance and deviance and offers a range of ethnographically based studies of different kinds of youth in varied national contexts. From Nepal to Canada, Europe, the Solomon Islands... Read more

List of contributors 1. Introducing youth culture in its own right: the state of the art and new possibilities Helena Wulff 2. Anthropology’s silent ‘others’: a consideration of some conceptual and methodological issues for the study of youth and children’s cultures Virginia Caputo 3. Talking of children and youth: language, socialization and culture Allison James 4. Inter-racial friendship: consuming youth styles, ethnicity and teenage femininity in South London Helena Wulff 5. The power of love: raï music and youth in Algeria Marc Schade-Poulsen 6. The making of a black youth culture: lower-class young men of Surinamese origin in Amsterdam Livio Sansone 7. The waltz of sociability: intimacy, dislocation and friendship in a Quebec high school Vered Amit-Talai 8. Media, markets and modernization: youth identities and the experience of modernity in Kathmandu, Nepal Mark Liechty 9. Masta Liu Christine Jourdan 10. Conclusion: The ‘multi’ cultural of youth Vered Amit-Talai Index

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Edited by Vered Amit and Helena Wulff