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 Inter-congress will be organised by the IUAES Commission on Anthropology of Children, Youth and Childhood in Bhubaneswar, India…See More

Hello,I am currently writing an overview on 'the ethnography of children' for an undergraduate textbook (in Japanese) that tries to describe how ethnographic methods and writing have evolved since the 'cultural turn'.What would you give as the key 'shifts' in the development of ethnographic studies of children? (an obvious one would be the shift towards the child-centred approach?) What ethnographic works of children or childhood would you recommend as definers/exemplars of key…See More

A forum for those studying and writing about children.

This group allows the sharing of personal experience and advice on how to write an article / text / paper in Anthropology.

Where and how do we look in our endeavours to research and theorise identity?

This is a group for discussing and exchanging ideas related to the theoretical and ethnographic study of migration and diaspora across all disciplines.

As Victor Turner said, culture is a forest of symbols...

Discussing ethnography and ethnographic disciplines in general, whether or not they are exclusive to anthropology as a discipline. Folkloristics, market research, ethnomusicology, microsociology, microeconomics, microhistory...

The organization and culture of anthropology; the organizations and cultures of anthropology.