Leverhulme Lecture: Anthropology of childhood and the problem of knowledge

Dr Mariana García Palacios is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield, hosted by the School of Languages and Cultures.

Mariana is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and Senior Researcher at CONICET. Her research is undertaken with Indigenous communities in intercultural, bilingual settings in Argentina and centres on childhood, education and interculturality, and children's construction of social and religious knowledge.

In this Leverhulme Lecture, held jointly with the Childhood and Youth Research Cluster of the School of Education, Dr Garcia Palacios will present her key findings in the field of social and religious knowledge in Argentina’s Indigenous Toba/Qom neighbourhoods, as contextualised in current debates on childhood, knowledge and development. The lecture will introduce new approaches to the study of children's knowledge construction which propose a new dialogue between anthropology and psychology.