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Tramping: alternatives to traditional American rites of passage.
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Creator
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Saturno, Anthony Vincent, Brown, Susan Love, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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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....
Show moreIn 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.
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Date Issued
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2013
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004057
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Subject Headings
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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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