Children's places : cross-cultural perspectives / / edited by Karen Fog Olwig and Eva Gullv.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948-; Gullv, Eva.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: vii, 255 p. :; ill., map.

Table of Contents

Towards an anthropology of children and place / Karen Fog Olwig and Eva Gullv -- Creating a natural place for children : an ethnographic study of Danish kindergartens / Eva Gullv -- Restricted experiences in a conflict society : the local lives of Belfast children / Laura Gilliam -- The Smith children go out to school - and come home again : place-making among Kuku-Yalanji children in Southeast Cape York, Australia / Francine Lorimer -- How will the children come home? Emplacement and the creation of the social body in an Ethiopian returnee settlement / Laura Hammond -- Growing up between places of work and non-places of childhood : the uneasy relationship / Olga Nieuwenhuys -- Common neighbourhoods - diversified lives : growing up in urban Norway / Hilde Liden -- Associationless children : inner-city sports and local society in Denmark / Sally Anderson -- Changing place, changing position : orphans' movements in a community with high HIV/AIDS prevalence in western Kenya / Erick Otieno Nyambedha and Jens Aagaard-Hansen -- Sweet and bitter places : the politics of schoolchildren's orientation in rural Uganda / Lotte Meinert -- 'Imagined communities' : the local community as a place for 'children's culture' and social participation in Norway / Anne Trine Kjrholt -- Children's places of belonging in immigrant families of Caribbean background / Karen Fog Olwig -- Epilogue : children's places / Vered Amit.