Youth Gangs and Street Children

Culture, Nurture and Masculinity in Ethiopia

von Paula Heinonen

180 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Presents an original and powerful ethnographic examination of children’s childhood with a focus on the child’s active participation in and acquisition of, cultural practices Describes how the phenomenon that at times children themselves end up parenting their parents, generates contradictory and at times disruptive role expectations and responsibilities from mothers and children alike Aims to understand and analyse the involvement of youth gangs in female juvenile prostitution and the cultural milieu in which this takes place Deepens our understanding of the different ways such children attempt to extricate themselves from street life in adulthood and later as mothers and fathers.

• Reihe: Social Identities
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie
• ISBN: 9780857450982
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.07.2011
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books