The Archaeology of Childhood Children,

The study of children and childhood in historical and prehistoric life is an overlooked area of study that Jane Baxter addresses in this brief book. Her timely contribution stresses the importance of studying children as active participants in past cultures, instead of regarding them mainly for their effect on adult life. Using the critical concepts of gender and socialization, she develops new theoretical and methodological approaches for the archaeological study of this large but invisible population.

Jane Eva Baxter is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and a member of the American Studies Program Committee at DePaul University.

Acknowledgments

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The Archaeology of Childhood in Context

1

(14)

Childhood and Anthropology

4

(3)

Childhood Research in Archaeology

7

(3)

The Importance of an Archaeology of Childhood

10

(1)

Chapter Organization

11

(4)

Theorizing Childhood in Archaeology

15

(12)

Introducing the Child's World

16

(1)

Children and Gender: Cultural Categories in Archaeology

17

(4)

Children as Active Participants in the Past

21

(2)

Moving Forward: Socialization and the Study of Childhood

23

(4)

The Cultural Creation of Childhood: The Idea of Socialization

27

(12)

Socialization as Intergenerational Discourse

28

(1)

Agents of Socialization and the Imparting of Cultural Knowledge

29

(3)

Children, Peer Groups, and the Negotiation of Cultural Knowledge

32

(2)

Socialization in the Past

34

(1)

Socialization across Cultures

35

(4)

Socialization and the Material Culture of Childhood

39

(18)

Multiple Meanings and Material Culture

39

(2)

Socialization in the Use of Material Culture: Toys and Playthings

41

(5)

Identifying Toys in Archaeological Contexts

46

(4)

Socialization in the Making of Material Culture: Apprenticeship and Situated Learning

50

(3)

Studying Apprenticeship and Learning in the Archaeological Record

53

(4)

Socialization, Behavior, and the Spaces and Places of Childhood

57

(24)

Children as a ``Distorting Factor'' in the Archaeological Record

58

(1)

Socialization and the Use of Space

59

(3)

Children at Play

62

(1)

Children at Work

63

(4)

Children and Space across Cultures

67

(5)

Children and Space in the Archaeological Record

72

(7)

Socialization, Space, and Archaeology of Childhood

79

(2)

Socialization, Symbols, and Artistic Representations of Children

81

(12)

Depicting Childhood, Depicting Gender

83

(4)

Children at Work and at Play

87

(1)

Child Rearing and Parenting

88

(1)

Children as Cultural Symbols

89

(4)

Socialization, Childhood, and Mortuary Remains

93

(16)

What Are We Studying When We Analyze Mortuary Remains?

94

(1)

Children as a Category in Mortuary Archaeology

95

(2)

Identifying Age-Based Categories through Mortuary Remains

97

(2)

Childhood Health, Nutrition, and Mortality

99

(2)

Children and the Elucidation of Horizontal Social Categories

101

(2)

Children as Indicators of Vertical Social Status

103

(2)

Mortuary Monuments and Representations of Children

105

(1)

The Symbolic Construction of Childhood: Implications for Socialization

106

(3)

Themes and Lessons from the Archaeology of Childhood

109

(8)

Socialization, Gender, and the Cultural Construction of Childhood

111

(1)

Casting Children as Actors

112

(1)

Child, Family, Community, Society

113

(1)

All Archaeology Is the Archaeology of Childhood

114

(3)

Bibliography

117

(24)

Index

141

(2)

About the Author

143

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