Aboriginal Adolescence
176 pages, 9 x 6
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Release Date:01 May 1988
ISBN:9780813526898
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Aboriginal Adolescence

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