CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Upper Class, Positivism, Internment Of Japanese Americans
16 Sep 2016
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In medieval society that idea of childhood did not exist; this is not to suggest that children were neglected, forsaken or despised. The idea of childhood is not to be confused with affection for children: it corresponds to an awareness of the particular nature of childhood which distinguished the child from the adult (and) in medieval society this awareness was lacking . Historical analysis of childhood is limited by a lack of evidence so that historical representations often say more about the present than the past. Documents say little about peasant childhood, nothing about different cultural or racial backgrounds: europeans did not have any knowledge of this. Historical accounts of non-european childhoods tend to be of colonial childhoods: perspective of the colonial master, children are the same as the culture they live in. Problematic because it allowed expansion and imposing the idea; assumed europeans were superior (child-like)
