Deborah Durham is Professor of Anthropology at Sweet Briar College. She is coeditor, with Jennifer Cole, of Generations and Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy and Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of Children and Youth.Jacqueline Solway is Professor Emeritus of the International Development Studies and Anthropology Departments of Trent University of Canada. She is editor of The Politics of Egalitarianism: Anthropological Theory and Practice.

"An important collection that furthers anthropological work on life stages."—Susan Reynolds Whyte, author of Generations in Africa: Connections and Conflicts

• Acknowledgments 1. Elusive Adulthoods: Introduction / Deborah Durham 2. The Predicament of Adulthood in Botswana / Jacqueline Solway 3. Educated Youth and the Search for in Adulthood Post-war Sri Lanka / Dhana Hughes 4. Learning to Wait: Schooling and the Instability of Adulthood for Young Men in Uganda / Claire Elisabeth Dungey and Lotte Meinert 5. Adulthood and Youth in a Rapidly Urbanizing Chinese County / Andrew B. Kipnis 6. Inventing the Rules: Redefining Moral Agency amongst the First Post-Independence Generation in Papua New Guinea / Karen Sykes 7. "Just Sitting" But Not Sitting Still: Delayed Adulthood and Changing Gender Dynamics in Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy8. Between 'Too Young' and 'Already Old': The Fleeting Adulthood of Perestroika Teens / Anna Kruglova Index

Deborah Durham is Professor of Anthropology at Sweet Briar College. She is coeditor, with Jennifer Cole, of Generations and Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy and Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of Children and Youth.Jacqueline Solway is Professor Emeritus of the International Development Studies and Anthropology Departments of Trent University of Canada. She is editor of The Politics of Egalitarianism: Anthropological Theory and Practice.

"An important collection that furthers anthropological work on life stages."—Susan Reynolds Whyte, author of Generations in Africa: Connections and Conflicts

• Acknowledgments 1. Elusive Adulthoods: Introduction / Deborah Durham 2. The Predicament of Adulthood in Botswana / Jacqueline Solway 3. Educated Youth and the Search for in Adulthood Post-war Sri Lanka / Dhana Hughes 4. Learning to Wait: Schooling and the Instability of Adulthood for Young Men in Uganda / Claire Elisabeth Dungey and Lotte Meinert 5. Adulthood and Youth in a Rapidly Urbanizing Chinese County / Andrew B. Kipnis 6. Inventing the Rules: Redefining Moral Agency amongst the First Post-Independence Generation in Papua New Guinea / Karen Sykes 7. "Just Sitting" But Not Sitting Still: Delayed Adulthood and Changing Gender Dynamics in Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy8. Between 'Too Young' and 'Already Old': The Fleeting Adulthood of Perestroika Teens / Anna Kruglova Index

Deborah Durham is Professor of Anthropology at Sweet Briar College. She is coeditor, with Jennifer Cole, of Generations and Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy and Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of Children and Youth.Jacqueline Solway is Professor Emeritus of the International Development Studies and Anthropology Departments of Trent University of Canada. She is editor of The Politics of Egalitarianism: Anthropological Theory and Practice.

"An important collection that furthers anthropological work on life stages."—Susan Reynolds Whyte, author of Generations in Africa: Connections and Conflicts

• Acknowledgments 1. Elusive Adulthoods: Introduction / Deborah Durham 2. The Predicament of Adulthood in Botswana / Jacqueline Solway 3. Educated Youth and the Search for in Adulthood Post-war Sri Lanka / Dhana Hughes 4. Learning to Wait: Schooling and the Instability of Adulthood for Young Men in Uganda / Claire Elisabeth Dungey and Lotte Meinert 5. Adulthood and Youth in a Rapidly Urbanizing Chinese County / Andrew B. Kipnis 6. Inventing the Rules: Redefining Moral Agency amongst the First Post-Independence Generation in Papua New Guinea / Karen Sykes 7. "Just Sitting" But Not Sitting Still: Delayed Adulthood and Changing Gender Dynamics in Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy8. Between 'Too Young' and 'Already Old': The Fleeting Adulthood of Perestroika Teens / Anna Kruglova Index