Welcome to Part 2 of Volume 10 of Childhood in the Past, the journal of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP). This issue includes two research papers and five book reviews. In the first of the research papers Jennifer Bengtson highlights the lack of infant-focused research that has been undertaken in pre-Columbian North America. Her paper deals with the Mississippian cultural tradition and involves an exploration of an unusual structure referred to as ‘House 1’ from the Hunze-Evans village site in Southeast Missouri. Previous interpretations of the structure have identified its special association with women but Bengtson’s work enables a deeper level of interpretation to be gained through the exploration of issues related to womanhood, including fertility, childbirth and infancy. She concludes that the structure represents a unique, local expression of Mississippian cosmological themes related to gender and fertility that were expressed through infant-focused activity, including mortuary ceremonialism, childbirth and associated ritual seclusion. Héctor Hernández Álvarez’s study focuses on the experience of childhood during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the State of Yucatán, Mexico. His study explores the material culture used by children who would have lived at San Pedro Cholul, a hacienda devoted to the cultivation and processing of henequen fibre for export. Yucatán’s Gilded Age (1873–1925) is characterized by an industrial revolution based on the exploitation of henequen and the evidence derived from the site enabled an understanding to be gained about the role of children in these productive processes as well as the nature of child labour at this time. The diversity of artefacts recovered from the site also allowed insights to be gleaned in relation to play, work and child health, while distribution patterns of the material remains demonstrated that children both played and worked inside their house lots. Mechanisms for the socialization of children ensured continuity for the production and reproduction of cultural knowledge that took into account the diverse roles and obligations they had within their families and broader communities. The journal ends with a collection of book reviews edited by Simon Mays. The reviews cover an eclectic array of books on the topics of care in the past, children and everyday life in the Roman and Late Antique World, emotional responses in the wake of childhood death in premodern Europe, the relation of literacy and property to childhood in nineteenth-century America, and religious childhoods in nineteenthand twentieth-century Anglo-World and British Colonial contexts. As always, we express our gratitude to all of the contributors and reviewers whose support has enabled our journal to continue to thrive.

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欢迎阅读过去童年研究学会 (SSCIP) 的期刊《过去的童年》第 10 卷的第 2 部分。本期包括两篇研究论文和五篇书评。在第一篇研究论文中，Jennifer Bengtson 强调了在前哥伦布时期北美开展的以婴儿为重点的研究的缺乏。她的论文涉及密西西比州的文化传统，并涉及对密苏里州东南部 Hunze-Evans 村遗址中被称为“House 1”的不寻常结构的探索。先前对该结构的解释已确定其与女性的特殊关联，但 Bengtson 的工作通过探索与女性相关的问题，包括生育、分娩和婴儿期，可以获得更深层次的解释。她得出的结论是，该结构代表了密西西比州与性别和生育相关的宇宙学主题的独特的本地表达，这些主题通过以婴儿为中心的活动得以表达，包括太平间仪式、分娩和相关的隐居仪式。埃克托·埃尔南德斯·阿尔瓦雷斯 (Héctor Hernández Álvarez) 的研究侧重于 19 世纪末和 20 世纪初墨西哥尤卡坦州的童年经历。他的研究探索了原本居住在 San Pedro Cholul 的儿童所使用的物质文化，这是一个致力于种植和加工用于出口的 Henequen 纤维的庄园。尤卡坦的镀金时代 (1873-1925) 的特点是工业革命基于对 Henequen 的剥削，来自该遗址的证据使人们能够了解儿童在这些生产过程中的作用以及童工的性质此时。从该遗址中回收的各种文物也让人们可以了解与游戏、工作和儿童健康有关的见解，而材料遗存的分布模式表明，儿童在他们的房屋内玩耍和工作。儿童社会化机制确保文化知识生产和再生产的连续性，同时考虑到他们在家庭和更广泛社区中的不同角色和义务。该期刊以西蒙·梅斯 (Simon Mays) 编辑的一系列书评结尾。这些评论涵盖了一系列不拘一格的书籍，内容涉及过去的护理、罗马和晚期古董世界的儿童和日常生活、前现代欧洲儿童死亡后的情绪反应、识字率和财产与儿童时期的关系。 19 世纪的美国，以及 19 世纪和 20 世纪盎格鲁世界和英国殖民背景下的宗教童年。与往常一样，我们感谢所有贡献者和审稿人，他们的支持使我们的期刊能够继续蓬勃发展。19 世纪美国的识字和财产与童年的关系，以及 19 世纪 20 世纪盎格鲁世界和英国殖民背景下的宗教童年。与往常一样，我们感谢所有贡献者和审稿人，他们的支持使我们的期刊能够继续蓬勃发展。19 世纪美国的识字和财产与童年的关系，以及 19 世纪 20 世纪盎格鲁世界和英国殖民背景下的宗教童年。与往常一样，我们感谢所有贡献者和审稿人，他们的支持使我们的期刊能够继续蓬勃发展。