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Aboriginal Adolescence

by Victoria Katherine Burbank

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Price:: $34.95
ISBN:: 9780813526898
Published:: May 01, 1988

Release Date:: 1st May 1988
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Imprint:: Rutgers University Press
Series:: Adolescence in 7 Societies
Pages:: 176

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Study of the changing social context of adolescence, marriage and sexual relations in Mangraove, a Groote Eylandt Aboriginal community; review of anthropological and Aboriginal models of marriage- past and present ideals and realities; missionary influences; case studies of contemporary adolescent Aboriginal girls - love, expectations, intergenerational conflict; social strategies and changing values.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 The Research Setting
3 Marriage Past and Present: The Adult Perspective
4 Contemporary Marriage: The Adolescent Perspective
5 Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
References
Index

Victoria Katherine Burbank is Senior Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia.

Related topics: Social Science / Anthropology