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Tramping: alternatives to traditional American rites of passage
| Title: | Tramping: alternatives to traditional American rites of passage. |
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| Name(s): |
Saturno, Anthony Vincent, author Brown, Susan Love, Thesis advisor Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Degree grantor Department of Anthropology |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Created: | Fall 2013 | |
| Date Issued: | 2013 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: | Online Resource | |
| Extent: | 160 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | In America today, adolescent boys do not have a structured, ritualized or guided passage From boyhood into manhood. Many young men feel unsure of their manhood even at an age that signifies the transition. This causes young males to need a self--‐created rite of passage. Tramping, the act of travelling by train, hitchhiking or foot, is one way in which young males can independently achieve manhood. This is a literary account of the lives of Jack Kerouac, Chris McCandless, and Zebu Recchia. Their personal stories allow a detailed view of the advantages and disadvantages found in a self--‐created rite of passage. While two of the accounts are successful, in Chris McCandless’s case the rite ends in a transition to death.Tramping as a rite of passage to adulthood seems effective but the danger in self--‐ creation appears to be the lack of guidance that comes in unstructured rites of passage. | |
| Identifier: | FA0004057 (IID) | |
| Note(s): |
Includes bibliography. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013. |
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| Subject(s): |
Adolescence -- United States Cotton, Eddy Joe -- Biography Identity (Psychology) in adolescence Kerouac, Jack -- 1922-1969 -- Biography McCandless, Christopher Johnson -- 1968-1992 -- Biography Roads -- Social aspects Teenage boys -- Conduct of life Teenage boys in popular culture Tramps -- United States |
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| Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library | |
| Sublocation: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004057 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | All rights reserved by the source institution | |
| Restrictions on Access: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
