基本説明
The volume was inspired by the "Children and Anthropology" conference at the 14th International Congress of Anthroplogy and Ethnological Science, held at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1998.
Full Description
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.
Contents
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
