Rediscovering Lost Innocence - Archaeology At the State Home and School

An interdisciplinary study of the State Home and School for Dependent and Neglected Children, Rhode Island's state custodial institution for children from 1885 to 1979.

List of contents

1: Forgotten Childhoods
2: Children Lost and Found
3: Child Narratives in Unexamined Records
4: Recording Archaeological Details and Creating New Child Narratives
5: Collaborating
6: Do Archaeologists Overlook Children?
7: Dependent Children in Context
8: Neglected Children as Civic Responsibility
9: From Victorian Landscapes to a Child's Treatment Center
10: Unearthing Cultural Details
11: Play and Community Relations
12: Bureaucracies, Power, and Punishment
13: Why Don't I Know This?

Appendix A: State Home and School Project Timeline (2001-2010)
Appendix B: Rhode Island State Home and School/O'Rourke Children's Center: Oral History Project
Appendix C: POST-2002 ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD PROTOCOL

About the author

E. Pierre Morenon professor of anthropology at Rhode Island College, former director of the public archaeology program. He serves as a commissioner on the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission

Summary

An interdisciplinary study of the State Home and School for Dependent and Neglected Children, Rhode Island's state custodial institution for children from 1885 to 1979.

Product details

• Authors: E Pierre Morenon, E. Pierre Morenon
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2017
• EAN: 9780759110960
• ISBN: 978-0-7591-1096-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Archaeology