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Contribution short abstract

In this presentation I reflect with my two grown children how my ethnographic fieldwork periods and visiting scholarships have affected our family's lives and my children's identities and trajectories.

Contribution long abstract

When the mother is an anthropologists, the children should not get too attached to particular locations and people. In this presentation, I reflect with my 20-year-old daughter and 17-year-old son what it has meant for our family that we have lived in India and the UK because of my work, and that I made an ethnogrpahic documentary film in our hometown in Finland. The children share their experiences and reflections on our family's international life and their current views on the mother's profession and research topics. They also elaborate on how the mother's work related family adventures have affected their own identities and life trajectories. Eventually, the mother elaborates on the concept of anthropology as a family business from a more scholarly point of view.