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Transcultural Teens: Performing Youth Identities in French Cites
Chantal Tetreault
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Paperback. Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cite s, that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language in fascinating ways that subvert commonly held notions of intercultural animosity. Series: New Directions in Ethnography. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JFSP2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 302.
Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cité, that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language in fascinating ways that subvert commonly held notions of intercultural animosity.
- Provides solid, real-world evidence in the often abstracted theoretical debate on globalization and transnationalism
- Offers detailed data on linguistic practices that is more focused than generalized anthropological studies
- Includes the experiences of French-Algerian adolescent girls who remain largely absent from academic and popular discourse
- Reveals the cultural richness and diversity of a population that is stigmatized and marginalized in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
New Directions in Ethnography
Condition
New
Weight
301g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781119044154
SKU
V9781119044154
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About Chantal Tetreault
Chantal Tetreault is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University, USA. A specialist in linguistic and cultural anthropology, her work focuses on issues relating to migration and social change in France. She has contributed articles to journals such as Language in Society, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology,and Language and Communication.
Reviews for Transcultural Teens: Performing Youth Identities in French Cites
"...the relevance and deep theoretical underpinnings of Transcultural Teens offers social researchers robust case studies and strong practical examples of discourse analysis at work....a very relevant book that has been very well developed and organized. Tetreault’s well-constructed ethnographic research collection methods and discourse analyses provide not only a very clear picture but further frame this active and increasingly important context ... Read more