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Not Just a Victim: The Child as Catalyst and Witness of Contemporary Africa

English · Paperback / Softback

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Based on ethnographic research and inventive, child-oriented research methods, the current volume offers children's perspectives on kinship, children's experiences of work, caring, disease, migration, conflict, and many other key features of contemporary life in Africa.

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Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Ph.D. (Amsterdam 2001) is associate professor and senior researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam. She specializes in Africa and South West Indian Ocean studies. Dr Evers' research covers the anthropology of children, migration, slavery, memory and cognition, natural resource management, and sustainable development.

Catrien Notermans, Ph.D. (Nijmegen 1999) is an anthropologist working as a senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her fields of interest include religion (African Christianity, pilgrimage, witchcraft, Hinduism, material religion) and kinship (polygyny, fosterage, transnational kin networks).

Erik van Ommering is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam, where he attained his M.Sc. in 2007. His research focuses on children's experiences of primary education in settings of violent conflict. The regional focus of his study is Lebanon.


Product details

Assisted by Sandra Evers (Editor), Catrien Notermans (Editor), Erik van Ommering (Editor)
Publisher Brill
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 26.04.2011
 
EAN 9789004204003
ISBN 978-90-04-20400-3
No. of pages 284
Dimensions 160 mm x 239 mm x 15 mm
Weight 499 g
Series Afrika-Studiecentrum
Subjects Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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