Level: 100 level. Read more information on levels in our FAQs

Fees:  Please see Fees and payments

Lectures: 36 hours 

Classes: 18 hours

Assessment*: One examination and one essay

Typical credit**: 3-4 credits (US) 7.5 ECTS points (EU)

*Assessment is optional

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None.

• Infancy and parenting
• Play across space and time
• Children’s labour and economic worth
• Education and inequality
• Child soldiers and ‘street children’
• Childhood in the city

• Describe and account for some of the historical and contemporary variety in ideas of childhood existing in human societies
• Apply a variety of theoretical and comparative perspectives to material drawn from the ethnographic and historical record on children’s lives
• Critically evaluate the notion of childhood enshrined in conventions on, and campaigns about, ‘child rights’
• Think critically and creatively about issues related to childhood and children that they might encounter in the broader scholarly literature, in the mass media, or in their daily lives

LSE’s Department of Anthropology is world famous and world leading, ranked top Anthropology department in the UK in the Guardian League Tables 2018. Anthropology has been taught at the LSE since 1904. Many of the most important figures in anthropology's history (Malinowski, Firth, Leach, Gell, Bloch, and many others) have worked and/or studied at the LSE.

An emphasis on long-term anthropological fieldwork has always been a hallmark, and continues to be a strength, of the Department. Most members of staff, in addition to their responsibilities to students, conduct ongoing field research, which engages both with new research agendas and with well-established anthropological debates.

On this three-week intensive programme, you will engage with and learn from full-time lecturers from the LSE’s anthropology faculty.

H. Montgomery, 2008, Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological Perspectives on Children’s Lives, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell;

N. Scheper-Hughes and C. Sargent (eds), 1998, Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood, Berkeley: University of California Press;

D.F. Lancy, 2014 (Second Edition), The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings, Cambridge University Press.

*A more detailed reading list will be supplied prior to the start of the programme

**Course content, faculty and dates may be subject to change without prior notice