| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Preface: The meanings of crisis -- Coming of age : concepts and contradictions -- Santa Lucía : a certain place in uncertain times -- Becoming secondary school students -- Pedagogy and patriarchy -- Teaching history, teaching crisis -- English lessons and neocolonial longing -- Debating women -- Studying adolescents in (times of) crisis -- Myths of (fe)male achievement -- Postscript: Years later, having graduated : reflections on crisis and coming of age |
| Summary |
Coming of Age in Times of Crisis is an ethnographic study of secondary school youth growing up in a rural town in the Venezuelan Andes in the 1990s. Janise Hurtig draws on her experiences as a school ethnographer, English teacher, and student advisor, to provide an engaging, intimate, and critical exploration of the ways Santa Lucian students learned about, made sense of, and worked with the conflicting dreams and disillusions, promises and expectations of formal education and negligent patriarchy, to create individual adult identities. Through the concepts of coming of age and crisis, Hurtig explores connections between the ethnographic subject and the ethnographer's subjectivity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
High school students -- Venezuela -- Santa Lucía (Miranda) -- Social conditions
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Youth -- Venezuela -- Santa Lucía (Miranda) -- Social conditions
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Social & cultural anthropology.
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EDUCATION -- Secondary.
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Society.
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High school students -- Social conditions
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Youth -- Social conditions
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Venezuela -- Santa Lucía (Miranda)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230617247 |
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0230617247 |
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9780312293574 |
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0312293577 |
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9781349387496 |
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1349387495 |
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