Emotional Practice and Perspectives on Emotion in the Archaeology of Childhood

Summary

Childhood is a stage of life that engenders particularly empathetic and emotional responses from people, and those reactions affect how the topics of children and childhood are perceived, impact the individual(s) conducting research, and shape the ways we think about children as subjects. This paper is a wide ranging exploration of my experiences in the archaeological study of childhood, which includes both the role of emotion when interpreting childhood in the past and the emotional contexts of practice when doing the archaeology of childhood. This topical approach will be used to think more broadly about how emotions can enter into archaeological research in ways that both respect material evidence and the humanity of archaeologists and those they study in the past.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Archaeologies of Heart: Exploring the Role of Emotion and Spirit in Archaeological Research and Practice

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Abstract Id(s): 12159