Children : ethnographic encounters / edited by Catherine Allerton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allerton, Catherine, editor.

Series:

Encounters--experience and anthropological knowledge 1746-8175

Encounters: experience and anthropological knowledge, 1746-8175

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Case studies.

Children.

Children--Social conditions--Cross-cultural studies.

Children--Research--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Children--Social conditions.

Cross-cultural studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 186 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2016.

Summary:

Conducting ethnographic fieldwork with children presents anthropologists with particular challenges and limitations, as well as rewards and insights. Children: Ethnographic Encounters presents ten vivid accounts of researchers' experiences of working with children across a variety of cultural contexts. Part of the Ethnographic Encounters series, the book offers honest reflections on successes as well as difficulties and shows that in all cases - even those that 'fail' - anthropologists can learn something about children's position in their social world. Moving beyond the usual focus on North America and Europe, the text offers comparative insights into the nature of childhood in different societies. The chapters provide first-hand accounts of fieldwork with children in diverse geographical places such as Mexico, the Ecuadorian Amazon, Rwanda, central India, Thailand, Malaysia, and China. The book provides hope, encouragement and inspiration to anyone planning to undertake ethnographic fieldwork with children and offers important insights to students and researchers working in the growing field of anthropology of children and childhood, in childhood studies, and related fields. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Different Childhoods, Different Ethnographies: Encounters in Rwanda / Maja Haals Brosnan Brosnan, Maja Haals 17

2 'Difficult' Children: Ethnographic Chaos and Creativity in Migrant Malaysia / Catherine Allerton Allerton, Catherine 31

3 Paths to the Unfamiliar: Journeying with Children in Ecuadorian Amazonia / Natalia Buitrón-Arias Buitrón-Arias, Natalia 45

4 The Exemplary Adult: Ethnographic Failure and Lessons from a Chinese School / James Johnston Johnston, James 59

5 Learning to be a Child in Greater London / Anne-Marie Sim Sim, Anne-Marie 73

6 Questions and Curiosities, Ignorance and Understanding: Ethnographic Encounters with Children in Central India / Peggy Froerer Froerer, Peggy 87

7 Protectors and Protected: Children, Parents and Infidelities in a Mexican Village / Zorana Milicevic Milicevic, Zorana 101

8 Awkward Encounters: Authenticity and Artificiality in Rapport with Young Informants in China / Ole Johannes Kaland Kaland, Ole Johannes 113

9 Growing Close Where Inequalities Grow Large? A Patron for Qur'anic Students in Nigeria / Hannah Hoechner Hoechner, Hannah 127

10 Understanding the Indefensible: Reflections on Fieldwork with Child Prostitutes in Thailand / Heather Montgomery Montgomery, Heather 141

11 Guide to Further Reading / Catherine Allerton Allerton, Catherine 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-181) and index.

ISBN:

9781474258180

1474258182

9781474258173

1474258174

OCLC:

948340617