The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 May 2018
- ISBN 9780199670697
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages784 pages
- Size 246x171 mm
- Weight 1742 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In this volume, experts from around the world investigate childhood in the past, showing why it is important to understand childhood, why different cultures construct different ideas of how to rear children, what part children play in the community, and when and why childhood ends.
MoreLong description:
Real understanding of past societies is not possible without including children, and yet they have been strangely invisible in the archaeological record. Compelling explanation about past societies cannot be achieved without including and investigating children and childhood.
However marginal the traces of children's bodies and bricolage may seem compared to adults, archaeological evidence of children and childhood can be found in the most astonishing places and spaces. The archaeology of childhood is one of the most exciting and challenging areas for new discovery about past societies. Children are part of every human society, but childhood is a cultural construct. Each society develops its own idea about what a childhood should be, what children can or should do, and how they are trained to take their place in the world. Children also play a part in creating the archaeological record itself.
In this volume, experts from around the world ask questions about childhood - thresholds of age and growth, childhood in the material culture, the death of children, and the intersection of the childhood and the social, economic, religious, and political worlds of societies in the past.
I highly recommend this book as a central reference for students and researchers in the disciplines of archaeology, bioarchaeology and the history of childhood. The volume is meticulously edited, with chapters written in accessible language, and extensively illustrated ... it is a must-have. This volume is a brilliant showcase for the diversity and richness of the field of the archaeology of childhood.
Table of Contents:
Introductions: The History and Impact of the Archaeology of Childhood
The Archaeology of Childhood: The Birth and Development of A Discipline
The History of the Archaeology of Childhood
Defining Children and Childhood
Techniques For Identifying the Age and Sex of Children at Death
The Study of Growth in Skeletal Populations
Cultural Models of Stages in the Life Course
Infants and Mothers: Linked Lives and Embodied Life Courses
Children, Family, and Households
Prehistoric Households and Childhood: Growing Up in a Daily Routine
Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence For Infancy in the Roman World
Roman Household Organization
Material Culture and Childhood In Harappan South Asia
Working-Class Childhood In Nineteenth-Century New York City
Learning, Socialization, and Training
Learning the Tools of Survival in the Thule and Dorset Cultures of Arctic Canada
Educating Victorian Children: A Material Culture Perspective from Cambridge
Above and Below the Surface: Environment, Work, Death, and Upbringing In Sixteenth to Seventeenth-Century Sweden
Boys at Sea: An Osteological and Historical Analysis of Ships' Boys In the Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth-Century British Royal Navy
Training Children for Work In the Nineteenth Century: Material Culture Approaches
Self, Identity, and Community
Portrait of a Palaeolithic Family: Art, Ornamentation, and Children's Relationship with their Community
Care and Socialization of Children in the Bronze Age
Representations of Children in Ancient Greece
Children's Graffiti in Pompeii and Herculaneum
Vecino Archaeology and the Politics of Play in New Mexico
Children and Migration
Health, Disease, and Environment
The Developing Forager: Reconstructing Childhood Activity Patterns from Long Bone Cross-Sectional Geometry
Feeding Infants from the Iron Age to the Early Medieval Period in Britain
Disease and Trauma in the Children from Roman Britain
Infant Head Shaping in the First Millennium AD
The Contribution of Stable Isotope Analysis to The Study of Childhood Movement and Migration
Death, Memory, and Meaning
Where are the Children? Locating Children in Funerary Space in the Ancient Greek World
Miniature Adults? Children in Ancient Egyptian Iconography
Roman Sarcophagi and Children
Child Sacrifice in the Ancient Andes
Miniature Adults? The Representation of Children and Childhood in Medieval Art
Children's Burial Grounds (Cillíní) in Ireland: New Insights into an Early Modern Religious Tradition
Seeing, Presenting, and Interpreting the Archaeology of Childhood
Gazing on the Past (and Being Photobombed by Children): Archaeology, The Early Years Of Modern Photography, and the Visible/Invisible Child
From The Archaeology Of Childhood to Modern Children Visiting Archaeological Museums: An Italian Perspective
Material Culture, Museums, Movies, and Make Believe: Representing Medieval Childhood
Presenting Children from the Distant Past in Museums
