...Lesley A. Sharp Independence Day is by far the most important state holiday in Ambanja, a prosperous town in northwest Madagascar. Although clearly a celebration of national liberation, it is nevertheless fraught with ambiguity. Events climax in a morning parade, when legions of school youth march...

... youths for public works. I analyze the effects on Malagasy subjects of the state's two-pronged effort to valorize Malagasy labor through compulsory road and rail works and to valorize Malagasy forests through conservation and commodification. I argue that these initiatives sent contradictory messages...

.... Adiós Niño is about the violent and traumatizing world on the other side of these fortresses and compounds of the country’s small elite who do their best to shutter it out. As Deborah T. Levenson notes in this pene- trating analysis of underclass gang youth—Maras—in Guatemala City (one...

..., childhood reflections on experiences of abuse, as well as a critical discussion of the systems of power that pervaded the residential school system. This section is well suited for readers in child and youth studies, Indigenous studies, as well as nonacademic audiences (i.e., parents). Section 2 presents...

... performers and audience. Wider sociopolitical events have also contributed to this drift away from guitar music’s ichumar origins. Although many youths attracted to current guitar music imitate the rebels’ style without having direct experience of the rebellion, the genre none- theless continues...

... and rebellious youth culture as of frustration with official dogmatism, economic hardship, betrayal, and outright repression. Vaughan grounds her analysis in four intersecting processes that forged in Zuñiga and many in his cohort a hopeful, “freedom-seeking, affective subjectivity” (212) significantly...

... and youths of the ‘‘sacri- ficed generation the generation of students educated during an inward- looking, isolationist, ‘‘malagasization’’ phase in recent history. On the state level the parade is a display of power based on symbols...

... was constructed through a life movement system situated in mythico-ritual space and time. His interpretation is based on homologous relationships among several cultural domains. The four stages of life—childhood, youth, adulthood...

... small elite who do their best to shutter it out. As Deborah T. Levenson notes in this pene- trating analysis of underclass gang youth—Maras—in Guatemala City (one of the most violent and dangerous places on the planet), the colonial and postcolonial legacy has been one of exclusion for the vast...

... men had. Of course, the youths born too late for war experience still could work their way up the ceremonial hierarchy. But the federal government’s assimila- tion policy was designed to prevent that. The government promoted atten- dance at schools, but funding was available only for a minority...

...Figure 2. The 1961 Southwest Regional Indian Youth Council held at the University of Oklahoma. Clyde Warrior is standing in the front row, second from right, in the light jacket and dark pants. Clyde Warrior Papers. Courtesy of Della Warrior. ...

... Adolescent Storm and Stress: An Evaluation of the Mead-Freeman Controversy . Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2000a The Mead Freeman-Controversy in Review. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 29 ( 5 ): 525 -38. 2000b The Implausibility of Freeman's Hoaxing Theory: An Update. Journal...

... activity among Cherokee youth raise serious concerns for the future. Community members link the rates of diabetes to a soul wound caused by historical trauma passed on intergenerationally, and Lefler reveals that biology, particularly of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis, supports...

... Childhood and Youth , Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth, University of Sheffield, UK , 8–10 July . 2010 “You Might All Be Speaking Swedish Today”: Language Change in Nineteenth-Century Finland and Ireland . Scandinavian Journal of History 35 ( 1 ): 44 – 64 . Collins James...

... brought about greater reliance on the Sale- sians. Through a system of punishments and rewards and the educational reprogramming of indigenous youths in mission boarding schools, the Sale- sians sought to transform the Bororo into regimented laborers, good Chris- tians, and patriotic citizens. A labor...

..., but Gura demonstrates that he was also a man of his time. In his youth Apess lived as an indentured servant in white households; he converted to Methodism during the Second Great Awakening; and he enlisted during the War of 1812. Gura makes the most of the intersection of Apess’s life with these and other...

... they would be doing. Many, of course, worked as domestic servants, others learned a trade. In both cases, parents might sign contracts that assured food, lodging, and clothing, and hoped for good treatment for their offspring. For elite youths, girls were less likely to work, while boys might...

... Book Reviews powwow culture “has . . . become synonymous with Native youth culture” (110). The overview Scales provides in these chapters constructively and critically engages past work on the powwow by Tara Browner, Clyde Ellis, Luke Eric Lassiter, and others to provide valuable insights...