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Includes population level analyses that are combined with individual biological profiles from sorted burials and individual stories combed from burial records and archival data
Includes historic cases offering an interesting opportunity to combine historically proscribed social categories and biological age categories
Explores the bioarchaeology of childhood, an under-theorized stage of life precisely because it is so contextual and variable
Part of the book series: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory (BST)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
In order to explore this, the skeletal remains of the children buried at the small, local, yet politically radical Spring Street Presbyterian Church are detailed. Population level analyses are combined with individual biological profiles from sorted burials and individual stories combed from burial records and archival data.
What emerges are life histories of children—of infants, toddlers, younger children, older children, and adolescents—during this time of transition in New York City. When combined with historical data, these life histories, for instance, tell us about what it was like to grow up in this changing time in New York CityKeywords
- embodiment of social identity and lived experience of childhood
- isotope and health signatures of variation in weaning timing
- unique skeletal and historical experiences of childhood
- transition the data and theory into a narrative
- life histories and family life in 19th century New York
Authors and Affiliations
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Anthropology Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
Meredith A. B. Ellis
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Children of Spring Street
Book Subtitle: The Bioarchaeology of Childhood in a 19th Century Abolitionist Congregation
Authors: Meredith A. B. Ellis
Series Title: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92687-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92686-5Published: 09 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06491-4Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92687-2Published: 28 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2567-6776
Series E-ISSN: 2567-6814
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 143
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour