Naturalism, Agency and Ethics in Ethnographic Research With Children. Suggestions for Debate

ANDREA SZULC; ANA CAROLINA HECHT; M. CELESTE HERNÁNDEZ; PIA LEAVY; MELINA DAMIANA VARELA; LORENA ELIZABET VERON; FINCHELSTEIN, INÉS

AnthropoChildren

Universitè de Liège

Año: 2012

2034-8517

The ethnographic perspective has been expanded beyond anthropology in the past decades, particularly in the field of childhood studies. We welcome this new perspective but are also concerned because the rhetoric of "giving voice to children´s voices" has become commonplace both inside and outside the academic field. In this paper we would like to contribute to this debate on childhood, ethnography and agency by presenting some results of a collective research project -which began at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2008. We will address the profound connection between methodological and conceptual approaches to childhood and children, the ethnographic inquiry into children´s agency and some ethical considerations on such ethnographic work.