Helen Schwartzman

Children and Anthropology

Perspectives for the 21st Century

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Produktbeschreibung

The volume was inspired by the Children and Anthropology conference at the 14th International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnological Sciences, which was held at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in July of 1998. It was there that the contributing researchers/authors presented an argument aimed at changing the face of both anthropology and the study of children. They contend that anthropologists could and should contribute to a revitalized framework for the study of children and that childhood and youth culture are important sites for developing a more innovative and integrated anthropology. As anthropologists struggle with competing research paradigms and agendas in this post-industrial, post-structural, late-modern world, it is argued here that research on children is an important arena for demonstrating the value of an anthropology that is both integrative (across sub-fields) and comparative. It seems clear that children in the 21st century will confront a range of both new and continuing problems that anthropologists are well-situated to address, such as the exploitation of Third World child labor, AIDS and other epidemics affecting children world-wide, and the impact of immigration as well as forced relocations due to war, natural disasters, and other social and environmental ills.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9780897896863
• ISBN-10: 0897896866
• Artikelnr.: 21444558

Autorenporträt

Helen B. Schwartzman

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Questions and Challenges for a 21st Century
Anthropology of Children Children and Anthropology: A Century of Studies by
Helen B. Schwartzman Archaeological Approaches to the Study of Prehistoric
Children: Past Trends and Future Directions by Blythe E. Roveland The
Bodily Costs of Childbearing: Western Science through a West African Lens
by Caroline Beldsoe Street Children and their Peers: Perspective on
Homelessness, Poverty, and Health by Catherine Panter-Brick Participatory
Research with Children in Vietnam by Joachim Theis The Bear (Ir)Realities:
Media Technology and the Pretend-Real Distinction on a Televised Puppet
Show by Calvin Smith, Candi Forrest, Laurence Goldman, and Michael Emmison
Feminist Theory and the Ethnography of Children's Worlds: Barbie New Haven,
Connecticut by Elizabeth Chin Young People and the Creation of Cultural
Meaning: Three Examples from the Realm of Computing in Brazil by Gerald
Lombardi Those on the Other Side: Ethnic Identity and Imagination in Greek
Cypriot Children's Lives by Spyros Spyrou Constructing Racialized
Childhoods in Canadian Political Discourse by Jane Helleiner Index