Telling Children About the Past : : An Interdisciplinary Perspective / / ed. by Liv Helga Dommasnes, Nena Galanidou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bauer, Patricia J.,; Binant, Pascale,; Boulotis, Christos,; Costall, Alan,; Dommasnes, Liv Helga,; Economou, Maria,; Fivush, Robyn,; Frazier, Brandy N.,; Funari, Pedro,; Galanidou, Nena,; Gazi, Andromache,; Gelman, Susan A,; Gerring, Todd,; Gheorghiu, Dragos,; Howe, Craig,; Moussouri, Theano,; Piñón, Ana,; Richards, Ann,; Sarbu, Corina,; Silverman, Helaine,; Talalay, Lauren E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dommasnes, Liv Helga,; Galanidou, Nena,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: International Monographs in Prehistory: Ethnoarchaeology Series ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributing Authors --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction. Children and Narratives of the Past --; Part I Learning Paths: Cognitive and Psychological Perspectives --; Chapter 1 Cognitive and Neural Developments that Make it Possible to Experience the Past as the Present --; Chapter 2 Autobiography, Time and History: Children’s Construction of the Past in Family Reminiscing --; Chapter 3 Representing the Past in Pictures --; Chapter 4 Children’s Understanding of Authenticity --; Part II Contexts of Telling I: Digital and Printed Media --; Chapter 5 Groovin’ to Ancient Peru: A Critical Analysis of Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove --; Chapter 6 Telling Children About the Past using Electronic Games --; Chapter 7 In a Child’s Eyes: Human Origins and Paleolithic Life in Children’s Book Illustrations --; Chapter 8 Writing Prehistory for Children: A Comparison Between Author and Publisher-Edited Versions --; Chapter 9 Museums and Archeological Sites as the Setting for Wondrous Tales --; Part III Contexts of Telling II: Museums and Cultural Heritage Sites --; Chapter 10 Exhibiting the Past to Children --; Chapter 11 Eviscerating Barbie. Telling Children About Egyptian Mummification --; Chapter 12 Conversations About the Past: Families in an Archaeology Museum --; Chapter 13 Small People versus Big Heritage --; Part IV. Contexts of Telling III: Schools and Special Classrooms --; Chapter 14 Landscapes and Winter Counts: Lakota Ways of Telling Children About the Past --; Chapter 15 Telling Children About the Past in Brazil --; Chapter 16 From Fragments to Contexts: Teaching Prehistory to Village Children in Romania
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789201840; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789201840?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Liv Helga Dommasnes, Nena Galanidou.

This book brings together archeologists, historians, psychologists, and educators from different countries and academic traditions to address the many ways that we tell children about the (distant) past. Knowing the past is fundamentally important for human societies, as well as for individual development. The authors expose many unquestioned assumptions and preformed images in narratives of the past that are routinely presented to children. The contributors both examine the ways in which children come to grips with the past and critically assess the many ways in which contemporary societies and an increasing number of commercial agents construct and use the past.