Aluba and 'high' culture: adolescent male peer culture in play

作者：Bih Herng Dar^*; Huang Haitao

来源：Gender and Education, 2012, 24(2): 147-158.

DOI：10.1080/09540253.2011.602330

• social psychology
• cultural studies
• masculinities
• youth culture
• qualitative interviews
• secondary education
• South-East Asia

Aluba is a campus activity popular among adolescent males in Taiwan in which four boys lift up another boy by his arms and legs and make a show of pushing or rubbing his genitals against a pole-shaped object. The 'alubaee', nearly always a willing participant, is expected to put up a show of resistance for the satisfaction of all involved. It is a type of play for males that promotes closeness as well as competition. This study combines interviews, photographs and video materials with experiential descriptions to describe the aluba process, and analyses the fluidity of participant roles, the subtleties of the interaction among males, and the specific meaning of 'high' culture of adolescent males as reflected in the process of aluba.

• 出版日期2012
• 单位中山大学