Sebastian Gomez

SEBASTIAN GOMEZ, Open Anthropology Lab, Bogota, Colombia, was awarded a Global Initiatives Grant to assist building capacity in anthropology by expanding awareness of social issues among school children in Colombia through “Antropología Xñ” This project details the experience of Anthropology Xñ, an editorial project of anthropology for children. It aims to stimulate curiosity and encourage children to critically explore contemporary social issues. In order to accomplish this, we have developed a methodology based on two-hour virtual meetings where our team collaboratively created the content of the four books we prepared for this series. This first series is made up of four open-access didactic books that include (1) Migration, (2) Ecologies, (3) Globalization, and (4) Race, where we transform ethnographic material into tales, games, and activities. Our challenge in the future is to develop a distribution strategy for books in school contexts in Colombia and Latin America.