Abstract
While a clearly defined field of educational anthropology has yet to develop a secure niche within the disciplines of either educational studies or anthropology, there is no doubt that anthropology has made a number of important contributions to the study of education. These include a relativistic perspective of socialization practices, a holistic approach, and an ethnographic method that allows for the simultaneous study of structure and agency in the educational process. At the same time, through their studies of education, anthropologists have become more involved in policy-making in their own societies than has been the case in most other areas of anthropological inquiry. In general, though, anthropologists have tended to study education and socialization practices under the headings of ethnicity and nationalism, or cognitive and psychological anthropology, or the growing field of the anthropology of children, rather than as a distinctive field of educational anthropology.
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