Where are the children that were here? - Anthropology with children in institutions

• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Mirella Alves de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Zero-a-seis
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/zeroseis/article/view/1980-4512.2019v21n40p343

The work sought to place at the centre of the studies the experience of children who temporarily reside in institutions specialized in hosting. The objective was to reach notions of child and family, notions of life and care, contact with children and adolescents hosted in social protection institutions. It was also in the interest of the work to invest in deepening the ethnographic practice and listening to narratives with children. Among the threads that surround the debate are the anthropological studies about children and the specialized practices that underpin the services of attention to children, adolescents and families, in the field of health and social care in Brazil. It is a field that consists of ethnographic contexts from which networks and intersections of practices, mediations and connections are articulated, that can not be restricted to the idea of a spatial delimitation, since they form malleable and transient circuits.