| Children, Spaces and Identity Contributor(s): Sánchez Romero, Margarita (Editor), Alarcón García, Eva (Editor), Aranda Jiménez, Gonzalo (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1782979352 ISBN-13: 9781782979357 Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited OUR PRICE: $66.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Children's Studies - Social Science | Archaeology - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 305.23 |
| Series: Childhood in the Past Monograph |
| Physical Information: 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? |
Contributor Bio(s): Sanchez Romero, Margarita: - Margarita Sánchez Romero is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Granada, Spain.Alarcon Garcia, Eva: - Eva Alarcón García is a research fellow in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Granada, Spain.Aranda Jimenez, Gonzalo: - Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Granada, Spain. |
