Playing with Names: How Children Create Identities of Self in Anthropological Research
Abstract
Children have long been present in anthropological research but rarely does their involvement receive the critical attention that is given to adult participants. This paper examines what is revealed about the construction of identities of self when the research-related play of two girls in quite different ethnographic contexts is examined. Drawing on research in Bridgetown, Barbados, and Saskatoon, Canada, it is argued that through the playful search for a pseudonym, these two girls speak to issues of poverty and prostitution that highlight how they see, experience and contribute to the world around them as active agents, rather than passive recipients, of cultural processes.
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