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Journal Article
YOUTH AND CULTURAL PRACTICE
2002
Overview
The study of youth played a central role in anthropology in the first half
of the twentieth century, giving rise to a still-thriving cross-cultural
approach to adolescence as a life stage. Yet the emphasis on adolescence as a
staging ground for integration into the adult community often obscures young
people's own cultural agency or frames it solely in relation to adult
concerns. By contrast, sociology has long considered youth cultures as central
objects of study, whether as deviant subcultures or as class-based sites of
resistance. More recently, a third approach-an anthropology of
youth-has begun to take shape, sparked by the stimuli of modernity and
globalization and the ambivalent engagement of youth in local contexts. This
broad and interdisciplinary approach revisits questions first raised in earlier
sociological and anthropological frameworks, while introducing new issues that
arise under current economic, political, and cultural conditions. The
anthropology of youth is characterized by its attention to the agency of young
people, its concern to document not just highly visible youth cultures but the
entirety of youth cultural practice, and its interest in how identities emerge
in new cultural formations that creatively combine elements of global
capitalism, transnationalism, and local culture.
