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.
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