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520 a| This book offers a critical anthropological perspective on contemporary childhood in Haiti. It is based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of 13 years with vulnerable children in Haiti. Diane M. Hoffman raises important questions about how interventions by well-meaning foreigners and "white saviors" often misrepresent Haitian culture and society as deficient, while privileging their own emotions alongside supposedly universal ideas about children that reinforce their own power to define and intervene in Haitian lives. She argues for a new approach to Haitian childhood that centers children's informal learning and self-education alongside indigenous spirituality and constructions of personhood that can resist the hegemony of neo-colonial and neo-liberal forces. Instead of representing the country and its children as a place of "problems to be solved," the book shows the importance prioritizing aspects of Haitian world-views in order to develop a more culturally-informed understanding of childhood in Haiti that can support genuine social change.--Provided by publisher.;

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A critical anthropology of childhood in Haiti emotion, power, and white saviors / Diane M. Hoffman.

Author/creator	Hoffman, Diane M., 1954-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Description	229 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Children--Haiti. --Social conditions. Anthropology--Haiti.

Abstract	This book offers a critical anthropological perspective on contemporary childhood in Haiti. It is based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of 13 years with vulnerable children in Haiti. Diane M. Hoffman raises important questions about how interventions by well-meaning foreigners and "white saviors" often misrepresent Haitian culture and society as deficient, while privileging their own emotions alongside supposedly universal ideas about children that reinforce their own power to define and intervene in Haitian lives. She argues for a new approach to Haitian childhood that centers children's informal learning and self-education alongside indigenous spirituality and constructions of personhood that can resist the hegemony of neo-colonial and neo-liberal forces. Instead of representing the country and its children as a place of "problems to be solved," the book shows the importance prioritizing aspects of Haitian world-views in order to develop a more culturally-informed understanding of childhood in Haiti that can support genuine social change.--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Issued in other form	Electronic version: HOFFMAN, DIANE M. CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD IN HAITI. [S.l.] : BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, 2023 9781350321359
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2024443789
ISBN	9781350321335 (hardcover)
ISBN	1350321338 (hardcover)

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