Adolescence in a Moroccan Town

by Susan Schaefer Davis

Overview

Adolescence is in many ways a culturally constructed category, with different meanings for different societies. Susan Schaefer Davis and Douglas A. Davis have studied adolescence in Zawiya, a town in northern Morocco. They examine changes in views of adolescence, changes in adolescent behavior, and differences in the adolescent experiences of boys and girls over the past few decades.

Rashid was eighteen in 1982, when he helped us understand the feelings and activities of young people in his neighborhood, no longer a boy but not quite a man. He liked to talk about how his feelings and his understanding had grown from the time described, when he was just a kid. He recalled his dreams and plans in one of the hundreds of conversations we had about adolescence in this Moroccan town. His generation of youth in "Zawiya," on the western edge of North Africa, are the subject of this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813527628
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	05/01/1999
Series:	Adolescents in a Changing World series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
1. Introduction
2. Daily Life in Zawiya
3. Defining Adolescence in Zawiya
4. The Family
5. Friendship
6. Sexuality, Courtship, and Marriage
7. Stress and Deviance
8. The Zawiya Individual
Appendix: Interview Protocols
Glossary
Notes
References
Index