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ASAO Monograph #16: Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies

Edited by Gilbert Herdt and Stephen C. Leavitt


University of Pittsburgh Press (1998)


​Comparative Perspectives on Pacific Adolescence


1. Introduction: Studying Adolescence in Contemporary Pacific Island Communities
Gilbert Herdt and Stephen C. Leavitt

2. Adolescence in the Pacific: A Biosocial View
Carol M. Worthman


Cultural Constructions of Adolescence

3. Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenthood in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Victoria K. Burbank and James S. Chisholm

4. Horticulture and Hierarchy: The The Youthful Beautification of the Body in the Paiela and Porgera Valleys
Aletta Biersack

5. Woman the Sexual, a Question of When: A Study of Gebusi Adolescence
Eileen M. Cantrell 


Adolescence and Social Change in the Pacific

6. Coming of Age on Vanatinai: Gender, Sexuality, and Power
Maria Lepowsky

7. Youth in Rotuma, Then and Now
Alan Howard

​8. The Bikhet Mystique: Masculine Identity and Patterns of Rebellion Among Bumbita Adolescent Males
Stephen C. Leavitt