Excellent biblio! Here is one more:
Pearson, Marlys and Paul R. Mullins
1999 Domesticating Barbie: An Archaeology of Barbie Material Culture
and Domestic Ideology. International Historical Archaeology 3(4):
261-282.
Cheers,
Tim
On Nov 2, 2005, at 8:16 AM, Mary C. Beaudry wrote:
> Dear List Members:
>
> Despite attempts by some to dismiss it, interpretive archaeology is
> not a fad; it may seem like it to those working within other
> intellectual traditions, but it's been around for a long time and
> has been growing within historical archaeology steadily over the
> past two decades. I offer a very short bibliography on
> interpretive approaches to the archaeology of childhood (& in some
> cases gender, which always seems to intersect with issues around
> childhood), in archaeology generally as well as in historical
> archaeology, and a reference to a reader on interpretive archaeology.
>
> This bibliography is very short because I did not have a great deal
> of time on my hands to locate citations to other sources of which I
> am tangentially aware; it's all stuff that I assign in whole or in
> part in my class, Approaches to Artifact Analysis in Historical
> Archaeology. The bibliographies in these sources of course lead to
> other sources; I especially commend you to Baxter's recent book on
> the archaeology of childhood.
>
> I did not have time to annotate, sad to say. I didn't include
> anything on artifact identification since Ron May covered that
> territory very well.
>
> I should note that a student who studied the marbles, dolls, and
> other toys recovered from the site of the African Meeting House in
> Boston by Beth Bower came up with interesting results: the spatial
> distribution of these finds showed concentrations of marbles
> outside one door, doll parts and "girl's toys" (e.g., miniature tea
> set parts, etc.) outside another on the opposite side of the
> building. These artifacts all dated to the time during which the
> building was used as a synagogue. What the student did not know
> before she did her study was that there were separate entrances for
> women and men (and boys and girls) at temple. So she stumbled upon
> a "pattern" that reflected specific practices in this locale and
> that confirmed the assumed "gender attributions" of the finds.
>
>
> Interpreting Artifacts of Childhood - A short bibliography
>
> Baxter, Jane Eva. 2005. The Archaeology of Childhood: Children,
> Gender, and Material Culture. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.
> Calvert, Karin. 1992. Children in the House: The Material
> Culture of Early Childhood, 1600-1900. Northeastern University
> Press, Boston.
> Feister, Lois. 1991. The Orphanage at Schuyler Mansion.
> Northeast Historical Archaeology 20:27-36.
> Howard-Carter S., 2004, Playing hard in West Oakland. In Putting
> the "There" there: historical archaeologies of West Oakland, ed. by
> M. Praetzellis and A. Praetzellis, pp.177-179. Anthropology
> Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA.
> Available on line at http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/cypress/finalreport/
> Ingersoll, Daniel W., Elizabeth Attias, and Catherine Gravlin
> Billheimer. 1992. Divining the Future: The Toys of Star Wars.
> In The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology: Essays in Honor
> of James Deetz, ed. by Anne Elizabeth Yentsch and Mary C. Beaudry,
> pp. 427-443. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
> Kamp, Kathryn A. 2001. Prehistoric Children Working and Playing:
> A Southwestern Case Study in Learning Ceramics. Journal of
> Anthropological Research 57(4):427-.
> Moore J., and E. Scott (eds). 1997. Invisible People and
> Processes: Writing Gender and Childhood in European Archaeology.
> Leicester University Press, London.
> Praetzellis, Adrian, and Mary Praetzellis. 1992. Faces and
> Facades: Victorian Ideology in Early Sacramento. The Art and
> Mystery of Historical Archaeology: Essays in Honor of James Deetz,
> ed. by Anne Elizabeth Yentsch and Mary C. Beaudry, pp. 75-99 [esp.
> pp. 88-98]. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
> Sofaer Derevenski J., 1997, Engendering children, engendering
> archaeology. In Invisible People and Processes: Writing Gender and
> Childhood in European Archaeology, ed. by J. Moore and E. Scott,
> pp. 192-202. Leicester University Press, London.
> Sofaer Derevenski, J., ed. 2000. Children and Material Culture.
> Routledge, New York.
> Wilkie, Laurie A. 2000. Not Merely Child's Play: Creating a
> Historical Archaeology of Children and Childhood. In Children and
> Material Culture, ed. by J. Sofaer Derevenski, pp. 100-114.
> Routledge, New York.
> Yamin R. 2002. Children's Strikes, Parents' Rights: Paterson and
> Five Points. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 26(2):
> 113-126.
>
> Of perhaps general use on interpretive approaches in archaeology:
> Thomas, Julian, ed. 2000. Interpretive Archaeology: A Reader.
> Leicester University Press, London.
>
>
>
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