Coming of Age in New Jersey: College and American Culture / Edition 1

by Michael Moffatt

Overview

Coming of Age is about college as students really know it and—often—love it. To write this remarkable account, Michael Moffatt did what anthropologists usually do in more distant cultures: he lived among the natives. His findings are sometimes disturbing, potentially controversial, but somehow very believable. Coming of Age is a vivid slice of life of what Moffatt saw and heard in the dorms of a typical state university, Rutgers, in the 1980s. It is full of student voices: naive and worldy-wise, vulgar and polite, cynical, humorous, and sometimes even idealistic. But it is also about American culture more generally: individualism, friendship, community, bureaucracy, diversity, race, sex, gender, intellect, work, and play. As an example of an ethnography written about an anthropologist's own culture, this book is an uncommon one. As a new and revealing perspective on the much-studied American college student, it is unique.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813513591
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1989
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1220L (what's this?)