AnthropoChildren

AnthropoChildren is an online international Review edited at the University of Liège (Belgium).
The Review publishes original articles in the area of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Children and Childhood. It subscribes to voluntary open access in an attempt to foster debate between academics, students and professionals worldwide.

The importance of long-term fieldwork and participant observation as a scientific process and a singular relation in the construction of subject matter is a starting point for addressing questions and issues on the development of the discipline. However, even if Anthropology of Children and Childhood is a field unto itself, there is no reason to separate it from the other areas within general anthropology (kinship, religion, economics, politics, etc.). The Review aims to bring together various academic traditions so that they may enlighten each other on the basis of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in different social categories and groups, communities, institutions, and societies around the world.

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CFP: Schooling in Anthropology: Learning the “Modern Way”

5th – 6th December 2011
Department of Anthropology and the Centre for Child-Focused Anthropological Research (C-FAR),
Brunel University, London,UK

The two-day workshop is intended to be a forum where we can explore and compare the common themes and contextual variations, theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches in relation to the specific processes and implications that this form of institutional organisation has for children, young people and society more generally. In addition, it is hoped we can consider the place of schooling within the research field of the Anthropology of Education, as well as the benefits of increased dialogue between ethnographic school
researchers in different disciplines, and the actual and potential contribution that the study of schooling can make to, for example, the anthropology of youth, political anthropology and the anthropology of personhood.

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Children and Youth in a Changing World

Organised by the IUAES Commission on Anthropology of Children, Youth and Childhood
Bhubaneswar, India
November 26-30, 2012

The 2012 Inter-congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) is a multi-disciplinary international conference on “Children and Youth in a Changing World”. We will examine childhood cross-culturally and historically to gain the richest and best-informed perspective for looking at children in the present and moving forward.  The principal aim of this congress is to bring anthropologists in academia, governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations and agencies working on and with children from different parts of the world and offer them a common platform to address various emerging issues relating to children and childhood.

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Anthropology and Youth

Cultural Anthropology has just launched its first virtual issue of 2011: Anthropology and Youth, edited by Amanda Snellinger, Roseann Liu, and Elizabeth Lewis.
The issue, which includes five essays previously published in CA, will be freely available for sixty days through the Wiley-Blackwell website
Each of the five essays is supplemented with a webpage that provides digital material related to the essay (see links to webpage below). All five authors provide new commentary on their work, as well as the anthropology of youth. The issue is highlighted with commentary by Deborah Durham.
You can view the virtual issue homepage here: http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/396
Author and discussant commentary are available here:
http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/398

Towards an Anthropology of Childhood and Children

ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK DIVERSITY
AND CONSTRUCTION OF A FIELD

Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales

Université de Liège, BE

9- 11 mars 2011

Program & Registration
www.lasc.ulg.ac.be

 

Submissions ACIG Newsletter, Oct 2010

Desculpem... é um bocado em cima da hora, mas cá vai...

September 15th, is the deadline for all item submissions for consideration for the October, 2010 issue of the ACIG Newsletter. Please submit items online to editor, Rachael Stryker, at: rstryker@mills.edu We look forward to receiving any of the following items:
- Column Submissions (Methods and Ethics in the Anthropology of Childhood; Childhood & _______ ; Favorite Ethnographies of Childhood; My Experiences/Intersections with Interdisciplinary Research on Children)
- Letters to the Editor
- New Book Announcements
- Professional Opportunities and Upcoming Events
- Member News/Professional Updates
- Photos from Fieldwork
AAA Children and Childhood Interest Group

Crianças na Diáspora Portuguesa - Texto e Fotografias

"Comunidades" (RTP / Açores) convidou-me para escrever um pequeno texto sobre o blogue Crianças na Diáspora Portuguesa e o meu atual projeto de investigação Infância, Migrações e Diversidade Cultural.


Está publicado em duas partes: TEXTO e FOTOS (ou procurem no arquivo na coluna da direita no "Comunidades", dia 6 de Junho de 2010).

Agradeço a Irene Blayer (Brock University, Ontário, Canadá) pelo interesse e disponibilidade.

Ângela Nunes

Brasil Plural: conhecimentos, saberes tradicionais e direito à diversidade

CFP: 27ª Reunião da Associação Brasileira de Antropologia
01 a 04 de Agosto de 2010
Campus da Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém.

10/04/2010 – Final da submissão de resumos para GTs e MRs
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Anthropology of Children Working Group (Seminars VU Amsterdam)

The Contours of Belonging: Legality, Race, Class and Generation in the US
Lecture by Dr. Irene Bloemraad (University of California, Berkeley) followed by discussion.
15 April 2010 – 14.30-16.30 hrs
Venue: VU University Amsterdam, Metropolitan Building, Room Z-113
Abstract: Of the more than 38 million foreign-born residents of the United States, roughly a third are naturalized US citizens, a third are legal permanent residents and a third are undocumented migrants without legal papers. The children of these people, if born in the United States, are automatically US citizens. Traditional accounts of political socialization expect that these children will learn about politics and civic engagement from their parents. But what happens when parents are immigrants, especially when their legal status prevents direct participation in the formal political system?
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Anthropology of Children Working Group

CFP: Towards an Anthropology of Childhood and Children

International Conference

Towards an Anthropology of Childhood and Children: Ethnographic Fieldwork Diversity and Construction of a Field

March 9-11, 2011 - University of Liege (Belgium) 

Coordinated by Élodie Razy, Charles-Édouard de Suremain, Véronique Pache 

For decades, childhood and children were considered as a ‘small subject’ (Lallemand & Le Moal 1981). It is thus justified to wonder: ‘where have all the babies gone?’ (Gottlieb 2000) or: ‘why don’t anthropologists like children?’ (Hirschfeld 2003). Whereas interdisciplinary research centres and networks, Cultural Studies, courses, projects, and meetings on the theme multiply, we propose a critical overview of anthropological accounts on childhood and children. The conference will present how this field developed in social and human sciences according to different academic traditions.

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CFP: International Conference 'The doors of perception: Viewing anthropology through the eyes of children'

30 September & 1 October 2010 - VU University Amsterdam

This conference aims to bring together anthropologists who work with children as well as researchers from other disciplines to provide a platform for intellectual discussion, exchange of ideas, networking, and to offer opportunities for collaboration. The primary goal of the conference is to examine current developments in the study of children and to develop perspectives on how research with children can contribute to anthropological epistemology and theory. Central questions to such a reflection are:
1) What can child-oriented research offer to current epistemological debates and theory in anthropology?
2) How can anthropological research with children benefit from insights from other disciplines?
3) How can an anthropological, child-oriented approach contribute to the research of children in other disciplines?
The conference welcomes proposals not merely from anthropologists but also from scholars representing other disciplines (including but not limited to geography, psychology, sociology, history, and education). We invite such scholars to reflect on the possible cross-fertilization that does or can take place in these interdisciplinary encounters.
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Mothering: Anthropological Perspectives

Chamada para Artigos
This anthology will explore the topic and experiences of mothering from a cross-cultural perspective. Although the collection will primarily focus on cultural anthropological work, we welcome submissions from all four fields in anthropology (linguistic, physical/biological, archeology, and cultural). We encourage writings of recent fieldwork, welcoming the representations of local and global perspectives, and writings that represent all points of the insider-outsider spectrum, including auto-ethnography. Writing styles may vary from field notes to ethnographic fiction to traditional academic writing to poetry to photographic representations. While ethnographic (research-based) submissions will make up the majority of the volume, theoretical submissions are also welcome. Ler mais...