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OverviewConducting 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 failures and shows that in all cases – even those that ‘failed’ – anthropologists can learn something about children’s position in their social world. Going 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 provides important insights to students and researchers working in the growing field of anthropology of children and childhood, in childhood studies, and related fields. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine AllertonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.466kg ISBN: 9781474258180ISBN 10: 1474258182 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 19 May 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Catherine Allerton, London School of Economics, UK1. Different Childhoods, Different Ethnographies: Encounters in Rwanda Maja Haals Brosnan, London School of Economics, UK2. 'Difficult' Children: Ethnographic Chaos and Creativity in Migrant Malaysia Catherine Allerton3. Paths to the Unfamiliar: Journeying with Children in Ecuadorian Amazonia Natalia Buitrón-Arias, London School of Economics, UK4. The Exemplary Adult: Ethnographic Failure and Lessons from a Chinese School James Johnston, London School of Economics, UK5. Learning to be a Child in Greater London Anne-Marie Sim, University of Oxford, UK6. Questions and Curiosities, Ignorance and Understanding: Ethnographic Encounters with Children in Central India Peggy Froerer, Brunel University, UK7. Protectors and Protected: Children, Parents and Infidelities in a Mexican Village Zorana Milicevic8. Awkward Encounters: Authenticity and Artificiality in Rapport with Young Informants in China Ole Johannes Kaland, NLA University College, Norway9. Growing Close Where Inequalities Grow Large? A Patron for Qur'anic Students in Nigeria Hannah Hoechner, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium10. Understanding the Indefensible: Reflections on Fieldwork with Child Prostitutes in Thailand Heather Montgomery, Open University, UK11. Guide to Further Reading, Catherine AllertonSelect Bibliography IndexReviewsAll contributions are written in a highly accessible manner, free from disciplinary jargon or particular theoretical concerns and with only a bare minimum of literature citations. The result is a unique text appealing to a broad readership. The chapters convey a real sense of what ethnographic research with children and youth is all about, including insightful reflections on the many dilemmas researchers inevitably encounter. In this way, the title offers something that the various textbooks on doing research with children and youth rarely achieve and as such forms an excellent companion to such conventional texts ... I would fully recommend this book to anyone interested in doing research with children – certainly not just anthropologists! - Children's Geographies Engagingly and vividly written, with examples of what happens in fieldwork with children, this book is vital reading for researchers wanting to study the lived realities of children and youth from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, geography and education, and helps in thinking through the practice and ethics of research encounters in diverse settings around the world. -- Virginia Morrow, Oxford Department of International Development, UK Children: Ethnographic Encounters drives home the important point that child-friendly methods need to be developed ethnographically and in response to individual children, and to different contexts and communities. This book humanizes the ethnographic process by reflecting humorously and thoughtfully on fieldwork experiences of awkwardness, embodied co-presence, frustration, and failure . I highly recommend this book to budding and experienced researchers alike, to help us persevere and remain open to moments of serendipity and personal connection, and yet simultaneously be more humble and cautious. -- Cati Coe, Rutgers University, USA These engaging essays reveal the highly varied but always situated ways in which children respond to anthropologists in their midst. By working with children, these anthropologists highlight the emotional intensity and astonishing insights that ethnographic encounters produce, while also opening up larger questions regarding what children know about their own worlds. -- Allison Truitt, Tulane University, USA This is a lively, detailed and refreshingly honest collection which opens up the black box of ethnographic research with children. Across a wide range of settings, contributors describe their frustrations and rewarding moments, and their appreciation of being let into children's worlds, be they mystifying, challenging and occasionally hilarious. Highly recommended reading for anyone contemplating research with children. -- Anne-Meike Fechter, University of Sussex, UK An excellent and insightful collection of ethnographic explorations of children's everyday lives from a range of settings, largely located within the Majority World. The book also includes a useful chapter which highlights further reading around related topics. A great addition to Childhood Studies. -- Samantha Punch, University of Stirling, UK Engagingly and vividly written, with examples of what happens in fieldwork with children, this book is vital reading for researchers wanting to study the lived realities of children and youth from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, geography and education, and helps in thinking through the practice and ethics of research encounters in diverse settings around the world. -- Virginia Morrow, Oxford Department of International Development, UK Children: Ethnographic Encounters drives home the important point that child-friendly methods need to be developed ethnographically and in response to individual children, and to different contexts and communities. This book humanizes the ethnographic process by reflecting humorously and thoughtfully on fieldwork experiences of awkwardness, embodied co-presence, frustration, and failure . I highly recommend this book to budding and experienced researchers alike, to help us persevere and remain open to moments of serendipity and personal connection, and yet simultaneously be more humble and cautious. -- Cati Coe, Rutgers University, USA These engaging essays reveal the highly varied but always situated ways in which children respond to anthropologists in their midst. By working with children, these anthropologists highlight the emotional intensity and astonishing insights that ethnographic encounters produce, while also opening up larger questions regarding what children know about their own worlds. -- Allison Truitt, Tulane University, USA This is a lively, detailed and refreshingly honest collection which opens up the black box of ethnographic research with children. Across a wide range of settings, contributors describe their frustrations and rewarding moments, and their appreciation of being let into children's worlds, be they mystifying, challenging and occasionally hilarious. Highly recommended reading for anyone contemplating research with children. -- Anne-Meike Fechter, University of Sussex, UK An excellent and insightful collection of ethnographic explorations of children's everyday lives from a range of settings, largely located within the Majority World. The book also includes a useful chapter which highlights further reading around related topics. A great addition to Childhood Studies. -- Samantha Punch, University of Stirling, UK All contributions are written in a highly accessible manner, free from disciplinary jargon or particular theoretical concerns and with only a bare minimum of literature citations. The result is a unique text appealing to a broad readership. The chapters convey a real sense of what ethnographic research with children and youth is all about, including insightful reflections on the many dilemmas researchers inevitably encounter. In this way, the title offers something that the various textbooks on doing research with children and youth rarely achieve and as such forms an excellent companion to such conventional texts ... I would fully recommend this book to anyone interested in doing research with children - certainly not just anthropologists! - Children's Geographies Author InformationCatherine Allerton is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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