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Article: Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies.(Review)
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- The Contemporary Pacific
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies, edited by Gilbert Herdt and Stephen C Leavitt. ASAO Monograph 16. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. ISBN cloth, 0-8229-4068-x; paper, 0-8229-5672-1; xii + 2.39 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, US$50.00; paper, US$22.95.
This volume was conceived nearly a decade prior to its publication, at a 1990 symposium of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), and was nearly aborted several times during its lengthy and difficult gestation. Its long-delayed debut, in a much altered and slimmer form than originally conceived, reveals in part some conceptual problems implicit in the topic of ...