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""Coming of Age in Times of Crisis"" is an anthropological study of the intersecting roles of gender and schooling in the lives of rural Venezuelan youth as they make the transition to adulthood during times of national political and economic crisis. Strongly grounded in local detail while speaking to larger comparative issues and the crises that surround globalization, the study enables us to see how gender roles and social class are reproduced in a culture experiencing profound upheaval, and to see how rural Venezuelans have managed to reproduce and change their culture in these circumstances.

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'Through Hurtig's deft and passionate ethnography, the young men and women of Santa Lucia, Venezuela will quickly gain a prominent, if disquieting, place in the anthropological understanding of schooling and youth identity. Hurtig plumbs the particular, small contradictions of youth's educational lives to illuminate the big contradictions of global political economy, gender, and schooling. A stunning piece of longitudinal educational research - evocative, heartbreaking, but ultimately optimistic' -Bradley A.U. Levinson, Associate Professor of Education and Anthropology, Indiana University and Lead Editor of Inter-American Journal of Education for Democracy 'In this vivid account of secondary school students' experiences of crisis in the Venezuelan Andes, Hurtig demonstrates close connections among state-society relations at local, national, and international levels. Hurtig's skillful analysis of the gendered dimensions of family life and secondary schooling sheds new light on questions about educational processes and social change. A must read for comparative educators, anthropologists of education, and everyone interested in schooling around the world' - Amy Stambach, author of Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa 'Hurtig cogently argues for 'patriarchy' as a useful analytic concept, and specifically 'negligent patriarchy,' as a cultural dynamic entailing both the production of desires and the normalized expectation of disappointment. This conceptual work enables her to diagnose gendered contradictions grounded in inequality and exploitation imbricated across house, street, nation, and imperialist realms. This is feminist ethnography at its most powerful' -Lessie Jo Frazier, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies, Indiana University

"""Offers the reader a portrait of Kurosawa's work in circulation throughout global culture, a focus that is unlike that found in other studies of Kurosawa...Martinez's sensitive understanding of Japanese culture provides fresh and intriguing interpretations of the plot material found in four key Kurosawa movies."" - Journal of Japanese Studies""A very welcome addition to the growing number of English language books discussing Kurosawa and his works. It approaches the topic from an angle that has often been referred to, but never quite explored with the dedication and enthusiasm that Martinez has given it."" - akirakurosawa.info"

Offers the reader a portrait of Kurosawa's work in circulation throughout global culture, a focus that is unlike that found in other studies of Kurosawa...Martinez's sensitive understanding of Japanese culture provides fresh and intriguing interpretations of the plot material found in four key Kurosawa movies. - Journal of Japanese Studies A very welcome addition to the growing number of English language books discussing Kurosawa and his works. It approaches the topic from an angle that has often been referred to, but never quite explored with the dedication and enthusiasm that Martinez has given it. - akirakurosawa.info

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JANISE HURTIG is a postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for Research on Women and Gender, University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

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