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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.
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.
The field school is often described as arite of passage among
archaeologists. They are considered essential for the appropriate
training of students for academic or professional archaeological
careers, and are perhaps the only universal experience in an
increasingly diverse array of archaeological career paths. Jane
Baxter's practical guide about how to run a successful field school
offers archaeologists ways to maximize the educational and training
benefits of these experiences. She presents a wide range of
pedagogical theories and techniques that can be used to place field
schools in an educational, as well as an archaeological, context.
Baxter then offers ahow to guide for the design of field schools,
including logistical, legal, and personnel issues as well as
strategies for integrating research and teaching in the field.
Replete with checklists, forms, and cogent examples, the author
gives directors and staff a set ofbest practices for designing and
implementing a school.
The field school is often described as a "rite of passage" among
archaeologists. They are considered essential for the appropriate
training of students for academic or professional archaeological
careers, and are perhaps the only universal experience in an
increasingly diverse array of archaeological career paths. Jane
Baxter's practical guide about how to run a successful field school
offers archaeologists ways to maximize the educational and training
benefits of these experiences. She presents a wide range of
pedagogical theories and techniques that can be used to place field
schools in an educational, as well as an archaeological, context.
Baxter then offers a "how to" guide for the design of field
schools, including logistical, legal, and personnel issues as well
as strategies for integrating research and teaching in the field.
Replete with checklists, forms, and cogent examples, the author
gives directors and staff a set of "best practices" for designing
and implementing a school.
Archaeological practice is currently shifting in response to
feminist, indigenous, activist, community-based, and anarchic
critiques of how archaeology is practiced and how science is used
to interpret the past lives of people. Inspired by the calls for a
different way of doing archaeology, this volume presents a case
here for a heart-centered archaeological practice. Heart-centered
practice emerged in care-based disciplines, such as nursing and
various forms of therapy, as a way to recognize the importance of
caring for those on whom we work, and as an avenue to explore how
our interactions with others impacts our own emotions and heart.
Archaeologists are disciplined to separate mind and heart, a
division which harkens back to the origins of western thought. The
dualism between the mental and the physical is fundamental to the
concept that humans can objectively study the world without being
immersed in it. Scientific approaches to understanding the world
assume there is an objective world to be studied and that humans
must remove themselves from that world in order to find the truth.
An archaeology of the heart rejects this dualism; rather, we see
mind, body, heart, and spirit as inextricable. An archaeology of
the heart provides a new space for thinking through an integrated,
responsible, and grounded archaeology, where there is care for the
living and the dead, acknowledges the need to build responsible
relationships with communities, and with the archaeological record,
and emphasize the role of rigor in how work and research is
conducted. The contributions bring together archaeological
practitioners from across the globe in different contexts to
explore how heart-centered practice can impact archaeological
theory, methodology, and research throughout the discipline.
The nineteenth century was a time when the world was becoming
increasingly connected through global forces and networks. Colonial
and capitalist expansion was bringing the world into closer
contact, while nationalism and forms of indigenous resistance were
shaping and moulding the world on more local and regional scales.
This dynamic environment was the backdrop for a time when childhood
was becoming significantly elaborated as a cultural category of
identity. Institutions, objects, and places specifically designed
for children were multiplying at an unprecedented rate; writing
about children in fiction and non-fiction became increasingly
prolific; and the concern for children's health and well-being in
life and death was paramount in many communities. Scholarship on
the nineteenth century spans many disciplines and areas of interest
and utilizes diverse and abundant source material to study a period
recognized as foundational for our modern, globalized world. This
volume brings together scholars from archaeology, art history,
bioarchaeology, educational history, history, literary studies, and
theatre history to present studies of nineteenth century children
and childhood in Australia, the Bahamas, Canada, England, Ireland,
Native North America, Romania, Russia, and the United States. The
interdisciplinary focus of this volume illustrates the wealth of
sources, methods, and perspectives that can be used to develop our
understandings of childhood in the nineteenth century, and the
international scope of the studies offers a platform to engage
commonalities in an increasingly globalized world alongside an
appreciation for local, regional, and national variations in the
cultural creation and experiences of childhood.
Archaeological practice is currently shifting in response to
feminist, indigenous, activist, community-based, and anarchic
critiques of how archaeology is practiced and how science is used
to interpret the past lives of people. Inspired by the calls for a
different way of doing archaeology, this volume presents a case
here for a heart-centered archaeological practice. Heart-centered
practice emerged in care-based disciplines, such as nursing and
various forms of therapy, as a way to recognize the importance of
caring for those on whom we work, and as an avenue to explore how
our interactions with others impacts our own emotions and heart.
Archaeologists are disciplined to separate mind and heart, a
division which harkens back to the origins of western thought. The
dualism between the mental and the physical is fundamental to the
concept that humans can objectively study the world without being
immersed in it. Scientific approaches to understanding the world
assume there is an objective world to be studied and that humans
must remove themselves from that world in order to find the truth.
An archaeology of the heart rejects this dualism; rather, we see
mind, body, heart, and spirit as inextricable. An archaeology of
the heart provides a new space for thinking through an integrated,
responsible, and grounded archaeology, where there is care for the
living and the dead, acknowledges the need to build responsible
relationships with communities, and with the archaeological record,
and emphasize the role of rigor in how work and research is
conducted. The contributions bring together archaeological
practitioners from across the globe in different contexts to
explore how heart-centered practice can impact archaeological
theory, methodology, and research throughout the discipline.
This is the first book to focus on archaeological evidence from the
recent past related to children, childhood, and adolescence. Jane
Baxter, a foremost authority on the archaeology of historic
American childhood, synthesizes the growing variety of ways
researchers have been approaching the topic, guiding readers
through an abundance of current data on the experiences of children
in American history. Baxter begins with a historical overview of
the changing views on childrearing and definitions of childhood
from colonial times to the present. Next, she examines
archaeological studies of children from household environments,
including farms, plantations, urban settings, industrial
communities, and military sites. She looks at studies from
institutions where children have resided, such as orphanages, poor
houses, asylums, Japanese internment camps, and Indian boarding
schools. Additionally, Baxter includes research on children buried
in cemeteries, showing what their skeletal remains and gravemarkers
can reveal about the importance of children in past communities.
Baxter concludes by featuring studies of present-day childhood,
pointing out how today's physical environments and material objects
reflect ideas about children that come from a long historical
legacy. She argues that the history of America can be understood
through the stories of the nation's children?and that with the
unique insights provided by archaeological evidence, these stories
can be more fully told. A volume in the series the American
Experience in Archaeological Perspective, edited by Michael S.
Nassaney.
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