ANTHR 3443 - [Anthropology of Children]

(ALC-AS, LA-AS)

Fall. Not offered: 2022-2023. Next offered: 2023-2024. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with ANTHR 6443.

Fiskesjö, M.

Our children re-create culture and society as they grow up and take charge of the world. But how does this actually happen? What are the implications? In this course we look at children’s creative engagement through the lens of anthropology, also borrowing from psychology, history, etc. We will pay special attention to how children learn, play, make-believe, and how they co-construct their own languages, cultures and societies. We draw on ethnographic studies of children, theories of childhood, as well as research on disadvantaged or excluded children, and, how the consequences can help us understand what “normal” children do.