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In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children's
Hospital in Winnipeg began to notice a new cohort appearing in
their clinics for young people with diabetes. Indigenous youngsters
from two First Nations in northern Manitoba and northwestern
Ontario were showing up not with type 1 (or insulin-dependent
diabetes), but with what looked like type 2 diabetes, until then a
condition that was restricted to people much older. Investigation
led the doctors to learn that something similar had become a
medical issue among young people of the Pima Indian Nation in
Arizona though, to their knowledge, nobody else. But these youth
were just the tip of the iceberg. Over the next few decades more
children would confront what was turning into not only a medical
but also a social and community challenge. Diagnosing the Legacy is
the story of communities, researchers, and doctors who faced-and
continue to face-something never seen before: type 2 diabetes in
younger and younger people. Through dozens of interviews, Krotz
shows the impact of the disease on the lives of individuals and
families as well as the challenges caregivers faced diagnosing and
then responding to the complex and perplexing disease, especially
in communities far removed from the medical personnel a facilities
available in the city.
While many studies suggest that Indian Untouchables do not entirely
share the hierarchical values characteristic of the caste system,
Michael Moffatt argues that the most striking feature of the lowest
castes is their pervasive cultural consensus with those higher in
the system. Though rural Untouchables question their particular
position in the system, they seldom question the system as a whole,
and they maintain among themselves a set of hierarchical
conceptions and institutions virtually identical to those of the
dominant social order. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork with
Untouchable castes in two villages in Tamil Nadu, south India,
Professor Moffatt's analysis specifies ways in which the
Untouchables are both excluded and included by the higher castes.
Ethnographically, he pursues his structural analysis in two related
domains: Untouchable social structure, and Untouchable religious
belief and practice. The author finds that in those aspects of
their lives where Untouchables are excluded from larger village
life, they replicate in their own community nearly every
institution, role, and ranked relation from which they have been
excluded. Where the Untouchables are included by the higher castes,
they complete the hierarchical whole by accepting their low
position and playing their assigned roles. Thus the most oppressed
members of Indian society are often among the truest believers in
the system. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
While many studies suggest that Indian Untouchables do not entirely
share the hierarchical values characteristic of the caste system,
Michael Moffatt argues that the most striking feature of the lowest
castes is their pervasive cultural consensus with those higher in
the system. Though rural Untouchables question their particular
position in the system, they seldom question the system as a whole,
and they maintain among themselves a set of hierarchical
conceptions and institutions virtually identical to those of the
dominant social order. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork with
Untouchable castes in two villages in Tamil Nadu, south India,
Professor Moffatt's analysis specifies ways in which the
Untouchables are both excluded and included by the higher castes.
Ethnographically, he pursues his structural analysis in two related
domains: Untouchable social structure, and Untouchable religious
belief and practice. The author finds that in those aspects of
their lives where Untouchables are excluded from larger village
life, they replicate in their own community nearly every
institution, role, and ranked relation from which they have been
excluded. Where the Untouchables are included by the higher castes,
they complete the hierarchical whole by accepting their low
position and playing their assigned roles. Thus the most oppressed
members of Indian society are often among the truest believers in
the system. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
"With Kinseyesque diligence Moffatt] catalogues the sexual habits
and fantasies of his students. . . . His book vibrates with quirky
authenticity." --New York Times Book Review "Useful for
understanding the student experience . . . throughout the United
States. . . . Beautifully written, carefully researched . . . a
classic."--John Thelin, Educational Studies "Michael Moffatt is a
multitalented, multidisciplinary scholar . . . who writes without a
trace of gobbledygook. He deserves a wide following." --Rupert
Wilkinson, Journal of American Studies "One of the most
thoughtfully crafted case studies of undergraduate culture . . .
ever written . . . a book every professor should read." --Paul J.
Baker, Academe Coming of Age is about college as students really
know it and--often--love it. To write this remarkable account,
Michael Moffatt did what anthropologists usually do in more distant
cultures: he lived among the natives. His findings are sometimes
disturbing, potentially controversial, but somehow very believable.
Coming of Age is a vivid slice of life of what Moffatt saw and
heard in the dorms of a typical state university, Rutgers, in the
1980s. It is full of student voices: naive and worldy-wise, vulgar
and polite, cynical, humorous, and sometimes even idealistic. But
it is also about American culture more generally: individualism,
friendship, community, bureaucracy, diversity, race, sex, gender,
intellect, work, and play. As an example of an ethnography written
about an anthropologist's own culture, this book is an uncommon
one. As a new and revealing perspective on the much-studied
American college student, it is unique.
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