Parenting (Other Keyword)

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Archaeology of Mothering in 19th Century Colonial Yucatán (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Minette Church.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Women’s Work: Archaeology and Mothering" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The investigation of mothering naturally parallels that of childhood in archaeological literature. Arguments for the status of women as the last colonized population and childhood as a colonial construct make looking at mothering in colonial contexts compelling and necessary. In Spanish and British colonial Yucatán, it can be difficult...


I’m Too Tired To Come Up With A Clever Title: Mothering and Archaeology-ing In The 21st Century (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Holly Norton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Women’s Work: Archaeology and Mothering" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. I never wanted to get married or have children, and of the two not having children was the more concrete. In the end I chose to do both, marry and reproduce. I will talk about how I came to the decision to have a child just out of grad school when I was still early career, what consequences that had at the time, and what the last 5.5...


Parenting in the Past: Investigations into the Spaces, Places, and Traces of Parenting in the Archaeological Record (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Dixon-Hundredmark. Cynthia Van Gilder.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper seeks to bring together the existing literature and extend its theoretical and methodological implications for an archaeology of parenting, particularly in the times/places where contemporary written records do not exist. While parenting and childhood may be more readily visible to researchers and the public in periods where written records...