| Life After Guns: Reciprocity and Respect Among Young Men in Liberia Contributor(s): Hardgrove, Abby (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813573475 ISBN-13: 9780813573472 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $38.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Violence In Society - Social Science | Children's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.242 |
| LCCN: 2016033724 |
| Series: Rutgers Childhood Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 4.98" W x 7.72" (0.39 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Africa - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight. She focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood. Whether young men fought or not, and whether they had cultural capital before the war or not, family relations mattered a great deal in how they fared after the war. |