The Archaeology Of Infancy And Infant Death

Author : Eleanor Scott
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015043410896

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The Archaeology of Infancy and Infant Death by Eleanor Scott Pdf

This book is a wide-ranging archaeological description and analysis of infancy, the social constructions of infancy, and the practices of infant care and social reproduction through time and across space. The main themes are the ways in which infants have lived in and have been perceived by society, the burial of the infant dead, and the meanings of domestic infanticide and infant sacrifice. It examines infancy as a process with meanings varying between and within societies, and it addresses the relationships between infants and adults. The contradictions which lie at the heart of attitudes to infants, and the exclusion of neonates from communal life and communal burial, are recurrent themes. The whole is rounded off with a concluding chapter which aims to establish some general statements about past attitudes to infancy and the treatment of infants, whilst stressing the particularity and specificity of the various historical contexts which have been examined.

Author : Bettina Arnold,Nancy L. Wicker
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 075910137X

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Gender and the Archaeology of Death by Bettina Arnold,Nancy L. Wicker Pdf

Anthropologist, archaeologists, and art historians detail their approaches to studying gender in burial practices and in other mortuary contexts. They compare European and American traditions in this field, outline methods for analyzing gender in cultures of varying complexity and with different levels of documentation, and describe some of the successes of such efforts. Consideration is given to the relationships between gender, ideology, power, signification, and the interpretation of evidence. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Eileen Murphy,Mélie Le Roy
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785707131

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Children, Death and Burial by Eileen Murphy,Mélie Le Roy Pdf

Children, Death and Burials assembles a panorama of studies with a focus on juvenile burials; the 16 papers have a wide geographic and temporal breadth and represent a range of methodological approaches. All have a similar objective in mind, however, namely to understand how children were treated in death by different cultures in the past; to gain insights concerning the roles of children of different ages in their respective societies and to find evidence of the nature of past adult–child relationships and interactions across the life course. The contextualisation and integration of the data collected, both in the field and in the laboratory, enables more nuanced understandings to be gained in relation to the experiences of the young in the past. A broad range of issues are addressed within the volume, including the inclusion/exclusion of children in particular burial environments and the impact of age in relation to the place of children in society. Child burials clearly embody identity and ‘the domestic child’, ‘the vulnerable child’, ‘the high status child’, ‘the cherished child’, ‘the potential child’, ‘the ritual child’ and the ‘political child’, and combinations thereof, are evident throughout the narratives. Investigation of the burial practices afforded to children is pivotal to enlightenment in relation to key facets of past life, including the emotional responses shown towards children during life and in death, as well as an understanding of their place within the social strata and ritual activities of their societies. An important new collection of papers by leading researchers in funerary archaeology, examining the particular treatment of juvenile burials in the past. In particular focuses on the expression of varying status and identity of children in the funerary archaeological record as a key to understanding the place of children in different societies.

Author : Maureen Carroll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199687633

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Infancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World by Maureen Carroll Pdf

Integrating social and cultural history with archaeological evidence and material culture, this first comprehensive study of infancy and earliest childhood encompasses the whole Roman Empire and explores the particular historical circumstances into which children were born and the role and significance of the youngest within the family and society.

Author : Eileen M. Murphy,Mélie Le Roy
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Burial
ISBN : 1785707140

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Children, Death and Burial by Eileen M. Murphy,Mélie Le Roy Pdf

Author : Jane Eva Baxter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442268517

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The Archaeology of Childhood by Jane Eva Baxter Pdf

The first edition of The Archaeology of Childhood has been credited by many as launching an entire new area of scholarship in archaeology. This second edition, published 17 years later, retains the first edition’s emphasis on combining sources from archaeology, anthropology, environmental studies, psychology, and sociology, to create a rich interdisciplinary basis for studying childhood across time and across cultures. The second edition is updated with archaeological studies about childhood that have been published in the past 20 years, and readers will see that the archaeology of childhood is a field with a relatively short history but a rich and varied scholarship. Archaeologists study children in the very recent past, as well as Neanderthal and early modern human children, and every period in between. These studies use artifacts, the built environment, spatial analyses, the artistic representations, skeletal remains, and mortuary assemblages to illuminate the lives of children, their families, and communities. The book’s eight chapters cover: 1: The Archaeology of Childhood in Context 2: Childhood in Archaeology: Themes, Terms, and Foundations 3: The Cultural Creation of Childhood: The Idea of Socialization 4: Socialization and the Material Culture of Childhood 5: Socialization, Behavior, and the Spaces and Places of Childhood 6: Socialization, Symbols, and Artistic Representations of Children 7: Socialization, Childhood, and Mortuary Remains 8: Looking Back and Moving Forward This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the major themes in the archaeological study of childhood and introduces the concept of socialization as a way of framing archaeological scholarship on children. Case studies and examples from around the globe are included, and the author’s expertise on childhood in 18th-20th century America is drawn upon to provide more familiar examples for readers allowing them to question their own assumptions and understandings of what it means to be a child. Each chapter ends with discussion questions and learning activities.

Author : Rebecca Gowland,Siân Halcrow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030273934

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The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology by Rebecca Gowland,Siân Halcrow Pdf

Over the past 20 years there has been increased research traction in the anthropology of childhood. However, infancy, the pregnant body and motherhood continue to be marginalised. This book will focus on the mother-infant relationship and the variable constructions of this dyad across cultures, including conceptualisations of the pregnant body, the beginnings of life, and implications for health. This is particularly topical because there is a burgeoning awareness within anthropology regarding the centrality of mother-infant interactions for understanding the evolution of our species, infant and maternal health and care strategies, epigenetic change, and biological and social development. This book will bring together cultural and biological anthropologists and archaeologists to examine the infant-maternal interface in past societies. It will showcase innovative theoretical and methodological approaches towards understanding societal constructions of foetal, infant and maternal bodies. It will emphasise their interconnectivity and will explore the broader significance of the mother/infant nexus for overall population well-being.

Author : Güner Coşkunsu
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438458069

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The Archaeology of Childhood by Güner Coşkunsu Pdf

Critical interdisciplinary examination of archeaology's approach to childhood in prehistory. Children existed in ancient times as active participants in the societies in which they lived and the cultures they belonged to. Despite their various roles, and in spite of the demographic composition of ancient societies where children comprised a large percentage of the population, children are almost completely missing in many current archaeological discourses. To remedy this, The Archaeology of Childhood aims to instigate interdisciplinary dialogues between archaeologists and other disciplines on the notion of childhood and children and to develop theoretical and methodological approaches to analyze the archaeological record in order to explore and understand children and their role in the formation of past cultures. Contributors consider how the notion of childhood can be expressed in artifacts and material records and examine how childhood is described in literary and historical sources of people from different regions and cultures. While we may never be able to reconstruct every last aspect of what childhood was like in the past, this volume argues that we can certainly bring children back into archaeological thinking and research, and correct many erroneous and gender-biased interpretations. Güner Coşkunsu is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey.

Author : National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.). Pregnancy and Infancy Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Sudden death in infants
ISBN : PURD:32754081178125

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The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Research Program of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Pregnancy and Infancy Branch by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.). Pregnancy and Infancy Branch Pdf

Author : Eileen Murphy,Mélie Le Roy
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785707155

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Children, Death and Burial by Eileen Murphy,Mélie Le Roy Pdf

Children, Death and Burials assembles a panorama of studies with a focus on juvenile burials; the 16 papers have a wide geographic and temporal breadth and represent a range of methodological approaches. All have a similar objective in mind, however, namely to understand how children were treated in death by different cultures in the past; to gain insights concerning the roles of children of different ages in their respective societies and to find evidence of the nature of past adult–child relationships and interactions across the life course. The contextualisation and integration of the data collected, both in the field and in the laboratory, enables more nuanced understandings to be gained in relation to the experiences of the young in the past. A broad range of issues are addressed within the volume, including the inclusion/exclusion of children in particular burial environments and the impact of age in relation to the place of children in society. Child burials clearly embody identity and ‘the domestic child’, ‘the vulnerable child’, ‘the high status child’, ‘the cherished child’, ‘the potential child’, ‘the ritual child’ and the ‘political child’, and combinations thereof, are evident throughout the narratives. Investigation of the burial practices afforded to children is pivotal to enlightenment in relation to key facets of past life, including the emotional responses shown towards children during life and in death, as well as an understanding of their place within the social strata and ritual activities of their societies. An important new collection of papers by leading researchers in funerary archaeology, examining the particular treatment of juvenile burials in the past. In particular focuses on the expression of varying status and identity of children in the funerary archaeological record as a key to understanding the place of children in different societies.

Author : Cornelia B. Horn,John W. Martens
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813216744

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"Let the Little Children Come to Me" by Cornelia B. Horn,John W. Martens Pdf

Providing a wealth of detail about childhood and family structure, this book explores the hidden lives of children at the origins of Christianity. "Let the Little Children Come to Me" pays careful attention to the impact of gender, class, and slave status on children's lives.

Author : Sally Crawford,Dawn Hadley,Gillian Shepherd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191649714

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood by Sally Crawford,Dawn Hadley,Gillian Shepherd Pdf

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.

Author : Mary E. Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521836026

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The Bioarchaeology of Children by Mary E. Lewis Pdf

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Author : Beatrice Sheets Duncan,United States. Children's Bureau,Emma Duke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Infants
ISBN : HARVARD:HL37HN

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Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Manchester, N. H. by Beatrice Sheets Duncan,United States. Children's Bureau,Emma Duke Pdf

Author : Marilyn Dunn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441119100

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The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons c.597-c.700 by Marilyn Dunn Pdf

This groundbreaking work treats the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons as a process of religious change and is the first to establish the importance of Christian doctrines and popular intuitions about death and the dead in the transition, focusing on the outbreak of epidemic disease between 664 and 687 as a crucial period for the survival of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England. It analyzes Anglo-Saxon conceptions of the soul and afterlife as well as traditional mortuary rituals, re-interpreting archaeological evidence to argue that the change from furnished to unfurnished burial in the late seventh and early eighth century demonstrates the success of the church's attempts to counter popular fears that the plague was caused by the return of the dead to carry off the living. The study employs ethnographic comparisons and anthropological theory to further our understanding of pagan Anglo-Saxon deities, ritual and ritual practitioners, and also considers the challenges confronting the Anglo-Saxon church, as it faced not only popular attachment to traditional values and beliefs, but also gendered responses to, or syncretistic constructions of, Christianity.