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Book Review

On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth. By Jay Mechling. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xxvi, 323 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-226-51704-7.)
Jay Mechling's book is an ethnographic study of Boy Scout culture, based on extensive fieldwork with one California Boy Scout troop over a period of fifteen years. The chapters are organized around a period of fourteen days—the average length of a Boy Scout summer camp. Each chapter narrates the events of one to two days, condensed out of the years of fieldwork. Accordingly, the characters, events, and dialogues are composites too. There are two significant caveats, however, that Mechling is very up front about: first, due to its methodology, organization, and goals, it is not a work of history. Second, the study is very much informed by Mechling's own scouting experience and his "proud identity as an Eagle Scout" (p. xxi), the highest rank a Boy Scout can earn. . . .
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