A global history of child death : mortality, burial, and parental attitudes /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- A brief history of child mortality
- Burial pits and ivory beads: prehistoric children
- Biblical children
- Burials at night: children in ancient civilizations
- Collateral of the plague: children of the Middle Ages
- Ambivalence
- The modern era
- Indigenous peoples
- Naming and replacement
- Consolation literature: poetry, letters, and songs
- Visual representations of grief: photographs, monuments, and art.