youth

VIRTUAL ISSUE: YOUTH


EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION: ANTHROPOLOGY AND YOUTH


By Roseann Liu, Amanda Snellinger, and Elizabeth Lewis

ALLISON, 2001

Youth

Historically, anthropological texts that spoke of children and youth did so through the lens of cultural development—the ways in which culture is transmitted to younger people— and included discussions about: rites of passage, the development of gender roles, liminality and the transition from childhood into adulthood in various societies. These articles served to inform an anthropological understanding of specific and general life stages to account for the role of youth in a given culture.

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