ISBN:
9781438458052
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (340 p)
Series Statement:
SUNY Series, The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Distinguished Monograph Series
Series Statement:
Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Distinguished Monograph Series
Series Statement:
IEMA Proceedings Volume 4
Parallel Title:
Print version Cosçkunsu, Güner Archaeology of Childhood, The : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on an Archaeological Enigma
DDC:
930.1028
Keywords:
Household archaeology
;
Infants ; History
;
Human remains (Archaeology)
;
Social archaeology
;
Children, Prehistoric
;
Children ; History
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Children as Archaeological Enigma -- A Brief Overview -- Why are Children Missing in Archaeological Interpretations? -- Why Do Archaeologists Need to Care about Ancient Children? -- How Do We Rescue Children in Archaeological Records? -- Structure of the Book -- Acknowledgments -- References Cited -- Part I : Theorizing (In)visibility, Legitimacy, and Biases inArchaeological Approaches to Children and Childhood -- Chapter One: The Devil's Advocate or Our Worst Case Scenario: The Archaeology of Childhood Without Any Children -- The Enduring Question of the (In)Visibility of Children -- The Conflation of Value and Visibility: A Brief Historical Perspective -- The Visibility of Childhood at a Time of Disciplinary Advocacy -- Our Worst Case Scenario? The Archaeology of Childhood without Children -- Beyond "Miniature Adulthood": Childhood in Seventeenth-Century New England -- Bodies and Identities: Reconfiguring Ideas of (In)Visibility in the Archaeological Study of Children -- Identity and Personal Objects -- Identity and Biographical Objects -- References Cited -- Chapter Two: Making Children Legitimate: Negotiating the Place of Children and Childhoods in Archaeological Theory -- The Inadequate Knowns -- The Need for Archaeological Study of Children and Childhoods -- The Need for Methodological Rigor -- Texts and Art -- The Skeletal Remains of Children Themselves -- Burial Treatments and Grave Furnishings -- Finger, foot, and hand prints -- Artifacts -- Space Use -- The Role for Experiments, Ethnography, and Ethnoarchaeology -- Conclusion -- References Cited -- Chapter Three: Method and Theory for an Archaeology of Age -- Introduction -- Identity, Relationality, and Vision -- Evidence -- Figurines -- Children as Figurine Makers -- Figurines as toys.
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Children as Archaeological Enigma -- A Brief Overview -- Why are Children Missing in Archaeological Interpretations? -- Why Do Archaeologists Need to Care about Ancient Children? -- How Do We Rescue Children in Archaeological Records? -- Structure of the Book -- Acknowledgments -- References Cited -- Part I : Theorizing (In)visibility, Legitimacy, and Biases inArchaeological Approaches to Children and Childhood
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter One: The Devil's Advocate or Our Worst Case Scenario: The Archaeology of Childhood Without Any Children -- The Enduring Question of the (In)Visibility of Children -- The Conflation of Value and Visibility: A Brief Historical Perspective -- The Visibility of Childhood at a Time of Disciplinary Advocacy -- Our Worst Case Scenario? The Archaeology of Childhood without Children -- Beyond "Miniature Adulthood": Childhood in Seventeenth-Century New England -- Bodies and Identities: Reconfiguring Ideas of (In)Visibility in the Archaeological Study of Children -- Identity and Personal Objects
Description / Table of Contents:
Identity and Biographical Objects -- References Cited -- Chapter Two: Making Children Legitimate: Negotiating the Place of Children and Childhoods in Archaeological Theory -- The Inadequate Knowns -- The Need for Archaeological Study of Children and Childhoods -- The Need for Methodological Rigor -- Texts and Art -- The Skeletal Remains of Children Themselves -- Burial Treatments and Grave Furnishings -- Finger, foot, and hand prints -- Artifacts -- Space Use -- The Role for Experiments, Ethnography, and Ethnoarchaeology -- Conclusion -- References Cited
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Three: Method and Theory for an Archaeology of Age -- Introduction -- Identity, Relationality, and Vision -- Evidence -- Figurines -- Children as Figurine Makers -- Figurines as toys -- Figurines as Vehicles of Magic -- Youthful Enchantment -- Architecture -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References Cited -- Chapter Four: Bodies and Encounters: Seeing Invisible Children in Archaeology -- The Visibility and Invisibility of Children in Archaeology -- Setting the In/Visibility Agenda -- The Body in the Archaeology of Children -- Material Culture, the Body, and an Archaeology of Ontogeny
Description / Table of Contents:
Tracing Ontogeny in the Archaeological Record -- Ontogeny 1: Learning to Make Things -- Ontogeny 2: Learning to Use Things -- Conclusion -- References Cited -- Chapter Five: Modern Biases, Hunter-Gatherers' Children: On the Visibility of Children in Other Cultures -- Do Infants Count as Children? -- Are Children Passive and Dependent on Adults? -- Are Children a Separate Class or Population? -- Are "Parents-Children" a Symbol of Reproduction and Substitute Generations? -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References Cited
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II: Interdisciplinary and Archaeological Approaches to Studying Children and Childhood in the Past
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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