A Brazilian child is born
introduction to the thematic issue on the Archaeology of Childhood
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Archaeology of ChildhoodAbstract
Archaeologists have traditionally assumed children to be invisible agents in their research, often considering them to be unimportant, non-agentive, or impossible to address in archaeological studies. The invisibility of children in archaeological interpretations has been questioned for decades by the feminist critique however. Grete Lillehammer (1989) published the first article calling for the archaeological study of children almost 30 years ago, entitled A child is born. The child's world in an archaeological perspective. Given the importance of this seminal paper to the field of archaeology, I have translated it to Portuguese for this thematic issue in order to make it more accessible to Brazilian archaeologists and students. Permission to publish the translation was granted by Grete Lillehammer and by Francis & Taylor, the publishers of the original article.
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