On My Honor
Subtitle: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780226517049
Subjects: Adolescents; American studies; Association: clubs, societies; Customs & folklore; Sports & Recreation; Sociology; Sports; USA; Americana; Children's Studies; Social Science / General; Outdoor Skills; Boy Scouts; Boy Scouts of America; Boys; Scouts and Scouting; United States
First sentence: I have a rule that I turn off my car's music I ease off the state highway onto the crushed rock and dirt road that carries me toward the high mountain lakes where Boy Scout Troop 49 has camped each July for the past thirty years or so.
Description: "In a timely contribution to current debates over the psychology of boys and the construction of their social lives, On My Honor explores the folk customs of adolescent males in the Boy Scouts of America during a summer encampment in California's Sierra Nevada. Drawing on more than twenty years of research and extensive visits and interviews with members of the troop, Mechling uncovers the key rituals and play events through which the Boy Scouts shapes boys into men.

He describes the campfire songs, initiation rites, games, and activities that are used to mold the Scouts into responsible adults."--BOOK JACKET.