L'idée de crise adolescente est-elle universelle ?

Abstract

The author answers to this question from an anthropological point of view. She establishes how the problematic of the passage from childhood to adulthood is, in itself, universal. She shows that each culture, from others universal themes, — i.e the need to be recognized, the need to be secure, the legal prohibitions, the violence control, the building of differences — elaborates its own passage ways. Some examples are developed, the Muria's Ghotul one (Bastar's state, India) and anothers from Samo and Masai in Africa. The question of this passage in our own society remains to be considered.