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Adolescent Life and Ethos - An Ethnography of a US High School (Hardcover)
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Adolescent Life and Ethos - An Ethnography of a US High School (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Adolescent
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Originally published in 1992, this Asian-authored book presents a
cultural description and interpretation of American high school
adolescent life and ethos, based on anthropological fieldwork in a
semi-rural school and its surrounding community in Oregon. It
combines a realistic account of late 1980s adolescent culture and a
confessional tale of the Asian ethnographer's fieldwork experiences
among American youngsters. The three main parts of the book focus
on a portrayal of adolescent daily life, an interpretation of these
young people's cultural values and ideals, and a reflection on the
ethnographer's fieldwork experiences respectively. Part 1,
Adolescent Life, includes five chapters presenting a brief version
of a key informant life history, a profile of the school, a
portrait of the community, a sketch of a typical school day, and
adolescent life out of school. Divided into four chapters, Part 2,
Adolescent Ethos, identifies three dimensions of adolescent ethos
and analyzes dynamics between the dimensions and reflecting ideals.
The last chapter of this part, 'The Duality of Ideals' discusses
how adolescents negotiated themselves in a complicated web of
various ideals pressing on them. Part 3, Doing Ethnography, reports
procedural and personal aspects of doing ethnographic research in
two separate chapters. The former discusses each step from locating
a field to writing an ethnography; the latter describes personal
feelings and scholarly thoughts which occurred during and after
fieldwork. Adopting the most inconspicuous, unobtrusive form of
research methods (she even dressed like them and acted with and
among them), the ethnographer tried to listen to the young people's
voices, peek into their lives from outside, and look out at the
world through their eyes.
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