Coming of Age in Times of Crisis: Youth, Schooling, and Patriarchy in a Venezuelan Town (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312293574)

Coming of Age in Times of Crisis is an anthropological study of the intersecting roles of gender and schooling in the lives of rural Venezuelan youth as they make the transition to adulthood during times of national political and economic crisis. Strongly grounded in local detail while speaking to larger comparative issues and the crises that surround globalization, the study enables us to see how gender roles and social class are reproduced in a culture experiencing profound upheaval, and to see how rural Venezuelans have managed to reproduce and change their culture in these circumstances. This book is based on two-and-a-half years of ethnographic field research Hurtig conducted in the Andean region of Venezuela between 1991 and 1993, and again briefly in 1996.

Author: J. Hurtig
ISBN-10: 0312293577
ISBN-13: 9780312293574
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2009
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d