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Not Just Playing With Toys: Enculturation And Identity In A Historic Village In Northeast Pennsylvania, Amarah Karlick
Not Just Playing With Toys: Enculturation And Identity In A Historic Village In Northeast Pennsylvania, Amarah Karlick
Anthropology and Sociology Student Research
The archaeology of early industrial communities can yield material evidence of the pervasive, interrelated impacts of industrialization on work and domestic life. Archaeologists and historians investigating industrial communities have increasingly pivoted from a focus on great men and firsts in technological development to the local sociocultural contexts and consequences of industrialization. Here, I use the study of toys from Stoddartsville, a milling village in northeast Pennsylvania, to examine the lived experiences of children during the mid-nineteenth century. I suggest that children learned powerful lessons about identity, especially gender, as they played with toys at Stoddartsville. These lessons cemented the social …
Chapter 7, Gender, In Intimacy And Community In A Changing World: Sikaiana Life 1980-1993, William Donner
Chapter 7, Gender, In Intimacy And Community In A Changing World: Sikaiana Life 1980-1993, William Donner
Sikaiana Ethnography
An ethnographic description of gender roles on Sikaiana, Solomon Islands from 1980-1993.
A related website can be found at www.sikaianaarchives.com