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Passage from Youth to Adulthood: Narrative and Cultural Thresholds

by Pierluca Birindelli

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

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The Passage from Youth to Adulthood explores a society unanchored from culturally endorsed rites of passage, in which young people and adults appear to build their identities within a culture of dependency. In this book, author Pierluca Birindelli interviews Italian young adults still living with their parents, and focuses on how those individuals view the bedroom and the objects therein. From there, he analyzes self-narrations and longer autobiographies written by university students, measuring his impressions against sociological, psychological, and anthropological literature. Birindelli explores the paradigm of what he calls "intergenerational collusion," in which fathers and sons are playing to the same script, heedless of the common good, the other, and the future. Finally, integrating the experience of young Americans abroad sparks transcultural reflections about the concept of play and the authenticity of social performance.
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  • Author

    Pierluca Birindelli

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

  • Published

    September 2014

  • Weight

    287g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780761863892

  • ISBN-10

    0761863893

  • Eden Code

    4839069

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