Whitley, David Whitley; Baxter, Jane

The Archaeology of Childhood : Children, Gender, and Material Culture

Acknowledgments xi 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