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Coming of Age in New Jersey: College and American Culture
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Coming of Age in New Jersey: College and American Culture Paperback - 2000

by Moffatt, Michael

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Rutgers University Press, 2000. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780813513591
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  • Title Coming of Age in New Jersey: College and American Culture
  • Author Moffatt, Michael
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 376
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9634260
  • ISBN 9780813513591 / 0813513596
  • Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6 x 0.81 in (22.91 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm)
  • Reading level 1220
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Geographic Orientation: New Jersey
  • Library of Congress subjects Participant observation, Rutgers University - Students
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88010124
  • Dewey Decimal Code 378.198

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From the publisher

"With Kinseyesque diligence [Moffatt] catalogues the sexual habits and fantasies of his students. . . . His book vibrates with quirky authenticity." --New York Times Book Review "Useful for understanding the student experience . . . throughout the United States. . . . Beautifully written, carefully researched . . . a classic."--John Thelin, Educational Studies "Michael Moffatt is a multitalented, multidisciplinary scholar . . . who writes without a trace of gobbledygook. He deserves a wide following." --Rupert Wilkinson, Journal of American Studies "One of the most thoughtfully crafted case studies of undergraduate culture . . . ever written . . . a book every professor should read." --Paul J. Baker, Academe 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.

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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.

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