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Child laborers in South Asia, child soldiers in Sierra Leone and Uganda, Chinese youth playing computer games to earn virtual gold, youth involved in sex trafficking in the former Soviet republics and Thailand: these are just some of the young people featured in the news of late. The idea that young people are more malleable and the truisms that "youth are the future" or "children are our hope for the future" give news stories and scholarly accounts added meaning. To address how and why youth and children have come to seem so important to globalization, the contributors to this book look...

In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics. Yet, love in Africa has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS.

"Love in Africa" seeks both to understand this failure to consider love and to begin to correct it....

Sex and Salvation chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar s economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered the sexual economy in hope of finding a European husband. Just as many Westerners believe that young people break with the past as they enter adulthood, Malagasy citizens fear that these women have severed the connection to their history and culture.
Jennifer Cole s elegant analysis shows how this notion of generational change is both...

The theme of this book is Change in Phonology, understood as encompassing both change at the level of the speech community and development within the individual speaker/hearer. As in other Laboratory Phonology volumes, thematically grouped sets of chapters are followed by a commentary by an author who approaches the topic from a different angle. The papers included in this volume are authored by linguists, psycholinguists, computer scientists and engineers and demonstrate that the Laboratory Phonology approach has reached maturity and has succeeded in its aim not only to bridge the gap...

"This volume illuminates how families and the communities in which they are enmeshed negotiate everyday lives with the social, cultural, economic, and political resources available to them. It provides an excellent example of how anthropology matters to our understanding of the contemporary world and its global restructuring." --Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University

Globalization is not only a large-scale phenomenon: it is also inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personhood, care, and the daily decisions through which we make our lives. Looking at sub-Saharan...

"Sex and Salvation" chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar s economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered the sexual economy in hope of finding a European husband. Just as many Westerners believe that young people break with the past as they enter adulthood, Malagasy citizens fear that these women have severed the connection to their history and culture.
Jennifer Cole s elegant analysis shows how this notion of generational change is both wrong...