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Sticky March 1, 2016 ACYIG Web Manager Welcome to the official website of the American Anthropological Association’s . Check out our latest blog , catch up on announcements , peruse our various resources , and become a member ! ACYIG Updates , Announcements Announcing ACYIG’s Inaugural book prize winner… February 2, 2024 ACYIG Web Manager The (ACYIG) is delighted to announce our inaugural prize for best new book representing the anthropology of childhood or youth goes to… Camilla Morelli, for her book Children of the Rainforest: Shaping the Future in Amazonia (Rutgers 2023). Morelli’s remarkable ethnography traces how Indigenous Matses children are actively driving cultural change in their communities in a globalising world, addressing old questions about children’s agentive roles in generational cultural shifts and suggesting provocative new questions about what anthropology may have been overlooking about the cultural and global significance of children’s imaginings, affective attachments, and aspirations. The prize committee agreed that Morelli’s monograph exemplified the criteria of originality, relevance to the anthropology of childhood and/or youth, potential for significant impact on the field, and readability. In addition, Morelli’s book is rich with ethnographic detail, children’s drawings and photographs, making this an engaging and accessible text for a wide readership. Morelli’s clear and compelling storytelling makes it appear as though ethnographic research with children in a remote forest setting is easy. To so effectively trace the processes of cultural change from local to global levels from children’s perspectives takes an ethnographer of impressive skill and demands tremendous emotional and physical labour. Congratulations, Camilla on your achievement. Link to Morelli’s book ACYIG Blog , Announcements Latest Spotlight on Scholarship: Funk et al. on how sweet potatoes can replace teddy bears in child development January 16, 2024 ACYIG Web Manager We are a team of six authors from Germany, the US, and India with backgrounds in socio-cultural anthropology and cultural psychology. Our book explores multifaceted linkages between culturally specific feeding practices and human bonding based on ethnographic case studies from Morocco, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Costa Rica. A comparative analysis of our ethnographic research demonstrates that there are many culturally valued ways of feeding children, contradicting the idea of a single, universally best feeding standard. We show that in many parts of the world feeding plays a central role in human bonding and relationship formation, something largely overlooked by attachment theory and related approaches. Our analysis further demonstrates that feeding contributes to relationship formation through different socio-emotional dimensions, which we label proximal, transactional, and distal. Each of these relates to a specific aspect of the feeding relationship (e.g., physical intimacy, food as a life-sustaining gift, conviviality) and is experienced by qualitatively distinct emotions. Finally, we argue that feeding practices can lead to different forms of relationships. Through feeding and eating together, caregivers express core values about how different generations should relate to each other. In our research sites, intergenerational feeding relationships are either hierarchically organized, or characterized by a mix of egalitarian and hierarchical orientations. Read more… ACYIG Blog Latest Spotlight on Scholarship: Francesca Meloni’s Way’s of Belonging December 14, 2023 ACYIG Web Manager In Canada, as in many other countries around the world, undocumented young people are struggling to access social rights such as education and healthcare. Their lives are shaped by chronic uncertainty and invisibility due to restrictive anti-migration policies, leaving thousands of young people caught between the movements of hiding and running for fear of being deported. How do these young people navigate everyday interactions when they have to hide themselves and their legal status? How do they relate to their social environment when they might be deported and separated from their friends at any moment? Read more… ACYIG Updates Latest Spotlight on Scholarship: Camilla Morelli on Imagination and Children Changing Cultures in Amazonia November 13, 2023 ACYIG Web Manager Spotlight on Scholarship Announcements Latest Spotlight on Scholarship: Guilherme Fians, Are they just kidding? Taking children seriously as research participants” October 19, 2023 ACYIG Web Manager Spotlight on Scholarship Announcements , Job Postings Two PhD positions in social anthropology/anthropology of childhood October 19, 2023 ACYIG Web Manager Applications are invited for two PhD positions at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich. The positions are part of the SNSF Starting Grant Saving Brains? Applying Ethnography to Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South.” The first position entails research in an East African setting, the second in a Latin American setting. https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/phd-position-in-social-anthropology-regional-focus-east-africa/b556de46-1fe1-4243-a2a1-6fa91dc8f9f5 https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/phd-position-in-social-anthropology-regional-focus-latin-america/616a4822-bbbb-42b2-af68-442dcf1bc20e Please apply if you are interested in one of these regions, childhood studies, international development, global health, and in doing ethnographic research. Announcements , Job Postings Job posting: Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Childhood and Critical Disability Studies October 17, 2023 ACYIG Web Manager The Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University—Camden, New Jersey, invites applications for an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Childhood and Critical Disability Studies expected to commence on September 1, 2024. To view the complete position description, including minimum qualifications required, and to apply, please visit https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/212911 The Department of Childhood Studies seeks an outstanding scholar whose research and teaching interests address topics and practices regarding childhood and disability with a focus on intersecting systems of oppression in either domestic and/or global contexts. We are particularly keen on receiving applications from those who center racial justice in their scholarship and teaching. We value research quality, the demonstrated appreciation for multidisciplinary approaches to the study of childhood and disabilities, and an eagerness to continue the department’s mission of expanding childhood studies at the BA, MA and PhD...