Coming of Age in New Jersey: College and American CultureRutgers University Press, 1989 - 355 páginas "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. |
Índice
TWO What College is REALLY Like | 25 |
Further Comments | 62 |
FOUR Race and Individualism | 141 |
FIVE Sex | 181 |
SIX Sex in College | 247 |
Further Comments | 266 |
Further Comments | 310 |
On Method | 327 |
References Cited | 341 |
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The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power Carole Counihan Vista previa restringida - 1999 |
Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research Ardra L. Cole,J. Gary Knowles Vista previa restringida - 2001 |