Children and Anthropology: Perspectives for the 21st Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780897896863)

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.

Author: Helen Schwartzman
ISBN-10: 0897896866
ISBN-13: 9780897896863
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2001
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.42w x 0.86d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 61