Anthropology fieldwork with children, sometimes kids get sick

An article by Dr. Reetta Toivanen, an Adjunct Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology and a Finnish Academy Research Fellow at the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki. 

She discusses how her children help her make contact with everyday people while traveling.  She also shares a journal entry from a particularly harrowing travel time when her child fell ill. 

http://allegralaboratory.net/fieldwork-with-children/

Anthropology Fieldwork with Kids in China - Book

There is an entire book about doing anthropology fieldwork in China with children, aptly titled "Doing Fieldwork in China…with Kids!", by Candice Cornet and Tami Blumenfield, which chronicles the experiences of 7 researchers.    

Emily Chao PhD at Pitzer College provides an in-depth summary of the book here.  The brief description of the book provided through Amazon.com is below.

"While many anthropologists and other scholars relocate with their families in some way or another during fieldwork periods, this detail is often missing from their writings even though undoubtedly children can have had a major impact on their work. Recognizing that researcher-parents have many choices regarding their children's presence during fieldwork, this volume explores the many issues of conducting fieldwork with children, generally, and with children in China, specifically. Contributors include well-established scholars who have undertaken fieldwork in China for decades as well as more junior researchers. The book presents the voices of mothers and of fathers, with two particularly innovative pieces that are written by parent - child pairs. The collection as a whole offers a wide range of experiences that question and reflect on methodological issues related to fieldwork, including objectivity, cultural relativism, relationships in the field and positionality. The chapters also recount how accompanied fieldwork can offer unexpected ethnographic insights.An appendix alerts future fieldworking parents to particular pitfalls of accompanied fieldwork and suggests ways to avoid these." 

Anthropology Fieldwork with Children - Panel

This Inside Higher Ed article by Elizabeth Redden shares multiple stories of women conducting anthropology fieldwork with their children.  These stories were from a panel on fieldwork and mothering at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in 2008.  Great job AAA for hosting this panel!

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/11/25/anthro

Jane Goodall, Too

"On March 4th, 1967, Hugo Eric Louis Van Lawick was born to Jane Goodall and Hugo van Lawick. Hugo was born in Nairobi during one of the pair's expedition. Their son was always called Grub ... Grub spent most of his childhood in the Serengeti, observing chimpanzees with his parents."

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/jane-goodall--22

Nocturnal Wildlife Fieldwork in India with Toddler

Inspiring post by Kaberi Kar Gupta about her PhD fieldwork in India with her child - http://lorises.blogspot.com/2012/05/couple-of-days-ago-i-got-email-from.html

Taking a Baby To Remote, Cold, Field Location

There is a wonderful article in the Chronicles of Higher Education about conducting field work in remote locations with a baby.   Solid list of recommendations at the end.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Mothers-in-the-Field/45801