ISBN:
978-1-118-38811-2
,
978-1-119-04415-4
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 219 S.
Series Statement:
New Directions in Ethnography 5
Keywords:
Frankreich Jugendlicher
;
Stadt
;
Migration
;
Algerien
;
Identität
;
Ethnizität
;
Soziales Leben
;
Minorität
;
Sprache
;
Multikulturalität
;
Beziehungen, transnationale
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Kulturanthropologie
;
Paris
Abstract:
Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cite s, that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language in fascinating ways that subvert commonly held notions of intercultural animosity. * Provides solid, real-world evidence in the often abstracted theoretical debate on globalization and transnationalism * Offers detailed data on linguistic practices that is more focused than generalized anthropological studies * Includes the experiences of French-Algerian adolescent girls who remain largely absent from academic and popular discourse * Reveals the cultural richness and diversity of a population that is stigmatized and marginalized in a national context
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vi Introduction: Performing Transcultural Youth Identities 1 1 Ethnography in les Cites 8 2 Speech in the Cite: Style and Stigma 34 3 Sans Probleme or Cent Problemes ? Revoicing Stereotypes about les Arabes 58 4 La Racaille and le Respect 91 5 You Call That a Girl? : Gender Crossing and Borderwork 114 6 Parental Name-Calling 154 7 Crossing Registers: Voicing the French TV Host 172 Conclusion 195 References 200 Index 213
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