Children, spaces and identity / edited by Margarita Sánchez Romero, Eva Alarcón García and Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sánchez Romero, Margarita, editor.

Alarcón García, Eva, editor.

Aranda Jiménez, Gonzalo, editor.

Series:

Childhood in the past monograph series ; Volume 4.

Childhood in the Past Monograph Series ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology) in children--Cross-cultural studies.

Identity (Psychology) in children.

Spatial behavior--Cross-cultural studies.

Spatial behavior.

Group identity--Cross-cultural studies.

Group identity.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Psychological aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Oxbow Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits involved in the study of childhood. Here specialists from archaeology, history, literature, architecture, didactics, museology and anthropology build a body of theoretical and methodological approaches about how space is articulated and organized around children and how this disposition affects the creation and maintenance of social identities. Children are considered as the main actors in historic dynamics of social change, from prehistory to the present day. Notions on space, childhood and the construction of both the individual and the group identity of children are considered as a prelude to papers that focus on analyzing and identifying the spaces which contribute to the construction of children's identity during their lives: the places they live, learn, socialize and play. A final section deals with these same aspects, but focuses on funerary contexts, in which children may lose their capacity to influence events, as it is adults who establish burial strategies and practices. In each case authors ask questions such as: how do adults construct spaces for children? How do children manage their own spaces? How do people (adults and children) build (invisible and/or physical) boundaries and spaces?

Contents:

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Children, Childhood and Space: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Identity; 2. Steps to Children's Living Spaces; 3. Complexity, Cooperation and Childhood: An Evolutionary Perspective; 4. Children as Potters: Apprenticeship Patterns from Bell Beaker Potteryof Copper Age Inner Iberia (Spain) (c. 2500-2000 cal BC); 5. Social Relations between Adulthood and Childhood in theEarly Bronze Age Site of Peñalosa (Baños de la Encina, Jaen, Spain); 6. Gender and Childhood in the II Iron Age: The Pottery Centreof Las Cogotas (Ávila, Spain)

7. Playing with Mud? An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Children'sLearning in Kusasi Ceramic Production8. Infantile Individuals: The Great Forgotten of Ancient Miningand Metallurgical Production; 9. Learning to Be Adults: Games and Childhood on the Outskirtsof the Big City (San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina); 10. Disabled Children and Domestic Living Spaces in Britain, 1800-1900; 11. La evolución de los espacios de aprendizaje de la infancia a travésde los modelos pedagógicos; 12. Montessori y el ambiente preparado: un espacio de aprendizaje paralos niños

18. Infant Burials during the Copper and Bronze Ages in the IberianJarama River Valley: A Preliminary Study about Childhoodin the Funerary Context during III-II millennium BC19. Premature Death in the Vaccean Aristocracy at Pintia(Padilla de Duero/Peñafiel, Valladolid). Comparative Study of the FuneraryRituals of Two Little 'Princesses'; 20. Dying Young in Archaic Gela (Sicily): From the Analysis of theCemeteries to the Reconstruction of Early Colonial Identity

21. Maternidad e inhumaciones perinatales en el vicus romanorrepublicanode el Camp de les Lloses (Tona, Barcelona): lecturas y significados22. Children and Funerary Space. Ritual Behaviours in the Greek Coloniesof Magna Graecia and Sicily; 23. Children and Their Burial Practices in the Early Medieval Cemeteriesof Castel Trosino and Nocera Umbra (Italy); 24. La cultura lúdica en los rituales funerarios infantiles: los juegosde velorio; 25. Compartiendo la experiencia de la muerte. El niño muerto y el niñofrente a la muerte

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782979388

1782979387

9781782979364

1782979360

OCLC:

917888664