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Inuit Youth
Condon
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Richard G. Condon's ethnography of Inuit adolescence describes the life of young people between the ages of nine and twenty in the small, isolated Inuit community of Holman Island, located in the Northwest Territories of the Canadian Arctic. He begins with an overview of the historical development and contemporary situation of the community, covering social organization, economic adaptations, and recent changes in population structure. Condon details the rapid social, material, and political changes taking place, and the impact of these changes on the behaviors, attitudes, and aspirations of the new generation of Inuit. The author vividly describes the day-to-day activities ... Read more
Richard G. Condon's ethnography of Inuit adolescence describes the life of young people between the ages of nine and twenty in the small, isolated Inuit community of Holman Island, located in the Northwest Territories of the Canadian Arctic. He begins with an overview of the historical development and contemporary situation of the community, covering social organization, economic adaptations, and recent changes in population structure. Condon details the rapid social, material, and political changes taking place, and the impact of these changes on the behaviors, attitudes, and aspirations of the new generation of Inuit. The author vividly describes the day-to-day activities ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813513645
SKU
V9780813513645
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Ref
99-1
About Condon
Richard G. Condon taught in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas until his death in September 1995.
Reviews for Inuit Youth
Until the 1980s no cross-cultural monograph on adolescence had supplemented Margaret Mead's 1928 classic Coming of Age in Samoa. . . . Now we have the first product of the Harvard Adolescence Project. Condon . . . tells of . . . loud and demanding preteens [who], through peer and community pressures (though almost without parental supervision) change into quiet, ... Read more