TY  - GEN
T1  - Life After Guns
A1  - Hardgrove, Abby
LA  - eng
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-33853
AB  - Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia’s fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove’s ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight. She focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood. Whether young men fought or not, and whether they had cultural capital before the war or not, family relations mattered a great deal in how they fared after the war.
SN  - 9780813573489
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - child
KW  - aging
KW  - guns
KW  - violence
KW  - adolescence
KW  - adulthood
KW  - childhood
KW  - war
KW  - war culture
KW  - trauma
KW  - men
KW  - boys
KW  - respect
KW  - reciprocity
ER  -