Children: ethnographic encounters

by Allerton, Catherine

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Full title :Children : ethnographic encounters / edited by Catherine Allerton.

Summary

Conducting ethnographic fieldwork with children presents anthropologists with particular challenges and limitations, as well as rewards and insights. This volume presents 10 vivid accounts of researchers' experiences of working with children across a variety of cultural contexts. Offering honest reflections on successes as well as failures, they show that in all cases - even those that 'failed' - anthropologists can learn something about children's position in their social worlds. Going beyond the usual focus on North America and Europe, the text also offers comparative insights into the nature of childhood in different societies, providing first-hand accounts of fieldwork with children in diverse geographical places, including Mexico, the Ecuadorian Amazon, Rwanda, central India, Thailand, Malaysia and China.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 186 pages ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781474258180, 1474258182, 9781474258173, 1474258174
oclc:ocn948340617
LC Classification:HQ767.9
Dewey Decimal:305.23

Introduction Catherine Allerton, London School of Economics, UK -- 1. Different Childhoods, Different Ethnographies: Encounters in Rwanda Maja Haals Brosnan, London School of Economics, UK -- 2. "Difficult" Children: Ethnographic Chaos and Creativity in Migrant Malaysia Catherine Allerton -- 3. Paths to the Unfamiliar: Journeying with Children in Ecuadorian Amazonia Natalia Buitrón-Arias, London School of Economics, UK -- 4. The Exemplary Adult: Ethnographic Failure and Lessons from a Chinese School James Johnston, London School of Economics, UK -- 5. Learning to be a Child in Greater London Anne-Marie Sim, University of Oxford, UK -- 6. Questions and Curiosities, Ignorance and Understanding: Ethnographic Encounters with Children in Central India Peggy Froerer, Brunel University, UK -- 7. Protectors and Protected: Children, Parents and Infidelities in a Mexican Village Zorana Milicevic -- 8. Awkward Encounters: Authenticity and Artificiality in Rapport with Young Informants in China Ole Johannes Kaland, NLA University College, Norway -- 9. Growing Close Where Inequalities Grow Large? A Patron for Qur'anic Students in Nigeria Hannah Hoechner, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium …

Subjects

Case studies Children Children -- Case studies Children -- Cross-cultural studies. -- … Children -- Social conditions Cross-cultural studies Enfants -- Études transculturelles. -- … Ethnologie Feldforschung Kind SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies Social science research Society