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The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time book cover

1st Edition

The Family in Past Perspective An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time

Edited By Ellen J. Kendall, Ross Kendall Copyright 2021
260 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume takes a more comprehensive view of past familial dynamics than has been previously attempted. By applying interdisciplinary perspectives to periods ranging from the Prehistoric to the Modern, it informs a wider understanding of the term family, and the implications of family dynamics for children and their social networks in the past.　 Contributors drawn from across the humanities... Read more

Foreword
Eileen M. Murphy

1. Introduction
Ellen J. Kendall and Ross Kendall

Part I: Ties that bind: defining family structure and dynamics in the past

2. Slavery, emancipation, and the construction of family on San Salvador, The Bahamas
John D. Burton

3. Alloparenting adolescents: evaluating the social and biological impacts of leprosy on young people in Saxo-Norman England (9th to 12th centuries AD) through cross-disciplinary models of care
Kori L. Filipek, Charlotte Roberts, Rebecca L. Gowland, and Katie Tucker

4. Blended or constructed families? Family, neighbourhood, and domestic space in early modern England
Dominic Birch

Part II: Between the ideal and the real: image, ideology, and the past family

5. Rousseau and the imagery of the la mère éducatrice in late 18th century French art
Suzanne Conway

6. Mother-love in the time of malaria: the politics of internal colonisation, endemic disease, and parent-child relations in Britain
Ellen J. Kendall and Ross Kendall

7. Children in the attic: family, emotion, and material culture in a post-medieval liminal space
Sally Crawford, Philip Salmon and Katharina Ulmschneider

Part III: Relative needs: the provision of care and resources within familial units

8. Poisoned pregnancies: consequences of prenatal lead exposure in relation to infant mortality in the Roman Empire
Joanna Moore, Michelle Williams-Ward, Kori L. Filipek, Rebecca L. Gowland, and Janet Montgomery

9. ‘Guarded treasures’: child health, care, and loss in urban families from the mid-18th to 19th century London
Sophie Newman

10. We’re all in this together: accessing the maternal-infant relationship in prehistoric Vietnam
Alisha B. Adams, Siân E. Halcrow, Charlotte L. King, Melanie J. Miller, Melandri Vlok, Andrew R. Millard, Darren R. Gröcke, Hallie Buckley, Kate Domett, Hiep Hoang Trinh, Tran Thi Minh, and Marc F. Oxenham

Afterword
Siân E. Halcrow, Rebecca L. Gowland, and Emma Sudron

Biography

Ellen J. Kendall is a postdoctoral researcher, with recent roles in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University and the EQUIPOL Research Group at the University of York. She serves as the Treasurer for the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP).

Ross Kendall is an experienced field archaeologist and human osteologist, with a PhD in Archaeology and Anthropology from Durham University. He is the editorial assistant for the journal Antiquity.

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