Ambivalent Encounters

JENNY HUBERMAN is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and TransliterationPART 1: Introductions1. Children, Tourists, and Locals2. A Tourist TownPART 2: Conceptions of Children3. Girls and Boys on the Ghats4. Innocent Children or Little Adults?5. The Minds and Hearts of ChildrenPART 3: Conceptions of Value6. Earning, Spending, Saving7. Something Extra8. Money, Gender, and the (Im)morality of Exchange9. ConclusionNotes ReferencesIndex

"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 economicactivities 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) "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 economicactivities 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)