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Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies (review)

Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies (review) book re v iews 281 Adolescence in Pacific Island Soci- eties, edited by Gilbert Herdt and Stephen C Leavitt. asao Monograph 16. Pittsburgh: University of Pitts - burgh Press, 1998. isbn cloth, 0– 8229 –4068–x; paper, 0– 8229 – 5672–1; xii + 239 pages, notes, bibli- ography, index. Cloth, us$50.00; paper, us$22.95. This volume was conceived nearly a decade prior to its publication, at a 1990 symposium of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (asao), and was nearly aborted sev- eral times during its lengthy and diffi- cult gestation. Its long-delayed debut, in a much altered and slimmer form than originally conceived, reveals in • 282 the contemporary pacific sp r ing 2001 part some conceptual problems lescence in contexts of social change” implicit in the topic of adolescence in (5). Essential to their approach is a the Pacific (as well as the generally “cultural life-course perspective” that unwelcoming environment for edited acknowledges the role of biology, topical volumes today in anthropol - while giving primary attention to ogy). The initial design included an “local cultural constructions of devel- additional number of original chap- opment” (6). The life-course appro a c h ters, supplemented by reprinted papers also http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies (review)

The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 13 (1) – Jan 1, 2001

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University of Hawai'I Press
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Copyright © 2001 University of Hawai'i Press.
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book re v iews 281 Adolescence in Pacific Island Soci- eties, edited by Gilbert Herdt and Stephen C Leavitt. asao Monograph 16. Pittsburgh: University of Pitts - burgh Press, 1998. isbn cloth, 0– 8229 –4068–x; paper, 0– 8229 – 5672–1; xii + 239 pages, notes, bibli- ography, index. Cloth, us$50.00; paper, us$22.95. This volume was conceived nearly a decade prior to its publication, at a 1990 symposium of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (asao), and was nearly aborted sev- eral times during its lengthy and diffi- cult gestation. Its long-delayed debut, in a much altered and slimmer form than originally conceived, reveals in • 282 the contemporary pacific sp r ing 2001 part some conceptual problems lescence in contexts of social change” implicit in the topic of adolescence in (5). Essential to their approach is a the Pacific (as well as the generally “cultural life-course perspective” that unwelcoming environment for edited acknowledges the role of biology, topical volumes today in anthropol - while giving primary attention to ogy). The initial design included an “local cultural constructions of devel- additional number of original chap- opment” (6). The life-course appro a c h ters, supplemented by reprinted papers also

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