Coming of Age in Times of Crisis
Subtitle: Youth, Schooling, and Patriarchy in a Venezuelan Town
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: January 12, 2012
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312293574
Subjects: Gender Studies; Rural communities; Social & cultural anthropology; Sex Roles (Sociological Aspects); Sociology Of Education; Education; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Venezuela; Anthropology - Cultural; Organizations & Institutions; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Philosophy & Social Aspects
Description: 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.