Adolescent identity : evolutionary, cultural and developmental perspectives / edited by Bonnie L. Hewlett.

As our world becomes increasingly permeable, and as human populations are rapidly converging and transitioning within a global interconnectedness, it is vital that we look to, and learn from, those most adept at the adaptation, creation, and contesting of culture: adolescents. This text is designed...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Hewlett, Bonnie L. (Bonnie Lynn), 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Routledge studies in anthropology ; 7.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: adolescent identity, risk, and change / Bonnie L. Hewlett
  • 2. Childhood, adolescence, and longevity: a chapter on human evolutionary life history / Barry Bogin
  • 3. Risky adolescent behavior: an evolutionary perspective / Bruce J. Ellis
  • 4. Hunter-gatherer adolescence / Bonnie L. Hewlett and Barry S. Hewlett
  • 5. Identity development, crises, and continuity: death-defying leaps in the lives of Indigenous and nonIndigenous youth / Michael J. Chandler and William L. Dunlop
  • 6. Contributions of ritual expressions at puberty to optimal identity formation of North American Indian girls / Carol A. Markstrom
  • 7. Food restriction and social identity of AKA forager adolescents in the Republic of the Congo / Kiyoshi Takeuchi
  • 8. "The bullet is certain": armed children and gunplay on the streets of Haiti / J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat
  • 9. Multiple identifications of multicultural adolescents: dialogues between tradition and postmodernity in a global context / Toon van Meijl
  • 10. Traditional dress in Kuwaiti adolescents' drawings: relations to social attitudes / Ramadan A. Ahmed and Judith L. Gibbons
  • 11. Introduction to television and Dominican youth / Marsha B. Quinlan and Jenna R. Hansen
  • 12. China's emergent youth: gender, work, dating, and life orientation / William Jankowiak and Robert L. Moore
  • Perspective on adolescent identity / Alice Schlegel.