Children and Material Culture

by Sofaer Derevenski,Joanna

• ISBN13: 9780415188975
• ISBN10: 0415188970
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the first book to focus entirely on children and material culture. The international contributors, from a wide range of disciplines skilfully integrate theory and data to illustrate fully the significance of studying children.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	x
Notes on contributors	xiii
Preface	xv
PART I Theoretical perspectives	1	(26)
Material Culture Shock: Confronting Expectations in the Material Culture of Children	3	(14)
Joanna Sofaer Derevenski
The World of Children	17	(10)
Grete Lillehammer
PART II Representing and perceiving children	27	(24)
Footprints in the Clay: Upper Palaeolithic Children in Ritual and Secular Contexts	29	(10)
Blythe Roveland
The Social Status and Artistic Presentation of `Adolescence' in Fifth Century Athens	39	(12)
Lesley Beaumont
PART III The transmission of knowledge	51	(36)
Apprentice Flintknapping: Relating Material Culture and Social Practice in the Upper Palaeolithic	53	(19)
Linda Grimm
Children, Material Culture and Weaving: Historical Change and Developmental Change	72	(15)
Patricia Greenfield
PART IV Childhood lives	87	(28)
Neanderthal Cognitive Life History and Its Implications for Material Culture	89	(11)
Jennie Hawcroft
Robin Dennell
Not Merely Child's Play: Creating a Historical Archaeology of Children and Childhood	100	(15)
Laurie Wilkie
PART V Children and relationships	115	(24)
The Construction of the Individual among North European Fisher-Gatherer-Hunters in the Early and Mid-Holocene	117	(14)
Liliana Janik
Children, Gender and the Material Culture of Domestic Abandonment in the Late Twentieth Century	131	(8)
Victor Buchli
Gavin Lucas
PART VI Geographies of children	139	(28)
The Child as a Node of Past, Present and Future	141	(10)
Koji Mizoguchi
Child Burials in Ancient Athens	151	(16)
Sanne Houby-Nielsen
PART VII Children and value	167	(24)
Children, Grave Goods and Social Status in Early Anglo-Saxon England	169	(11)
Sally Crawford
The Archaeology and History of Infanticide, and Its Occurence in Earlier British Populations	180	(11)
Simon Mays
PART VIII Demography and growth of children	191	(22)
Interpretation of the Growth of Past Populations	193	(13)
Louise Humphrey
Minor Concerns: A Demographic Perspective on Children in Past Societies	206	(7)
Andrew Chamberlain
Name index	213	(6)
Subject index	219