Using ethnographies of childhood and youth, her own anthropological research, and globalization theories, Ida Fadzillah Leggett analyzes how children and youth in contemporary cultures navigate differing expectations and changing rules using the frame of 'generational modernity.' This text contends that our modern, global, cosmopolitan, and technology-laden world is interpreted and significantly reshaped by different age groups. With a global focus that demonstrates ethnographic research to students, Generational Modernities is an incisive, original approach to childhood anthropology.