Document Type
Conference presentation
Publication Date
Spring 3-9-2024
Abstract
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 formations and identities that emerged within early industrial communities in the Middle Atlantic.
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Recommended Citation
Karlick, Amarah (2024) Not Just Playing with Toys: Enculturation & Identity in a Historic Village in Northeast Pennsylvania. Poster presented at the 54th Meeting of the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference, Ocean City, MD.
