Description
Trade Review"Huberman provides profound insights on the lives of children who work the streets of the tourist industry, and equally profound insights on the experience of tourists and their search for meaning and self understanding in India." -- Joseph S. Alter * professor of anthropology, University of Pittsburgh *
"A useful contribution to our understanding of interactions with children that take place in the context of tourism, and of children’s economic
activities more generally."
* Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
"Through her research on tourist-child encounters in Banaras, Huberman makes a real contribution to the ethnographic and psychological literature on working children and changing gender systems in India." * Ethos *
"
Ambivalent Encounters is one of the most ethnographically detailed and multifaceted books on children. Huberman expertly captures and explores relationships between value, age, and work in a contemporary Indian city." -- Chaise LaDousa * associate professor of anthropology, Hamilton College *
"A useful contribution to our understanding of interactions with children that take place in the context of tourism, and of children’s economic
activities more generally."
* Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
"Huberman provides profound insights on the lives of children who work the streets of the tourist industry, and equally profound insights on the experience of tourists and their search for meaning and self understanding in India." -- Joseph S. Alter * professor of anthropology, University of Pittsburgh *
"
Ambivalent Encounters is one of the most ethnographically detailed and multifaceted books on children. Huberman expertly captures and explores relationships between value, age, and work in a contemporary Indian city." -- Chaise LaDousa * associate professor of anthropology, Hamilton College *
"Through her research on tourist-child encounters in Banaras, Huberman makes a real contribution to the ethnographic and psychological literature on working children and changing gender systems in India." * Ethos *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
PART 1: Introductions1. Children, Tourists, and Locals
2. A Tourist Town
PART 2: Conceptions of Children3. Girls and Boys on the Ghats
4. Innocent Children or Little Adults?
5. The Minds and Hearts of Children
PART 3: Conceptions of Value6. Earning, Spending, Saving
7. Something Extra
8. Money, Gender, and the (Im)morality of Exchange
9. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
