J E Baxter
Biographic Data
| ID | 28725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J E Baxter |
| GIVEN NAMES | J E |
| FAMILY NAME | Baxter |
| SIGNATURE | BAXTER J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1118-4031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Our Silence Will Be More Powerful Than Words Could Be”: The Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument, Archaeology, and Commemorative Authority
The Rise of the Child Consumer and Interpretations of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century U.S. Domestic Sites
Emotional Practice and Emotional Archaeology: A Perspective from the Archaeology of Childhood
How to die a good death: Teaching young children about mortality in nineteenth century America
Infant and child mortality in the United States are at an all-time low, but 150 years ago an infant had a 1 in 4 chance of dying in their first year of life, and older children had only slightly better odds of surviving to adulthood. Scholars have questioned parental emotional investment in periods of high infant and child mortality, but few have considered how children understood mortality and the possibility of their own deaths. Adults in the n…
Creating desire and little consumers: Doll advertising in U.S. newspapers, 1860–1900
Archaeology of Childhood
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Education
This article offers an introduction to a special journal issue on nineteenth-century education. The three papers that comprise the issue are geographically and topically diverse, but all present cases of nineteenth-century educational expansion from elite institutions for privileged young men to more diverse populations, including those considered marginal or at risk, including women, the poor and disabled. This introduction contextualizes these …
The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Materiality of Anxiousness, Worry, and Fear
A Arqueologia Histórica da infância nos Estados Unidos
Os Estados Unidos é uma nação relativamente jovem, tendo sido estabelecida há menos de 250 anos, mas, neste breve período, o país passou por um crescimento dramático e uma transformação significativa. As crianças sempre foram centrais na cultura americana, e as fontes históricas e populares reconhecem o poder e a importância das crianças nas famílias, nas comunidades e na nação, assim como seu papel fundamental em influenciar a mudança intergerac…
The Freedom that Nighttime Brings: Privacy and Cultural Creativity among Enslaved Peoples at Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Bahamian Plantations
Reflections on Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Childhood in the Past
One of the hallmarks of research on childhood in the past is inclusive, interdisciplinary thinking. This reliance on interdisciplinarity to produce robust scholarship speaks, in part, to the ways we think about children and childhood today, as simultaneously embodied, material, cognitive, intersectional, relational, and developmental. Scholars working and connecting across disciplinary boundaries are also a product of the relatively recent emerge…
Conversations with the dead and the living in Oaxacan bioarchaeology
America’s One-Room Schools: Sites of Regional Authority and Symbols of Local Autonomy, after 1850
The End of American Childhood: A history of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child
The End of American Childhood: A history of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child." Childhood in the Past, 10(1), pp. 96–97
Building the Next Generation of Anthropological Archaeology
Adult nostalgia and children's toys past and present
This paper explores the role of adult nostalgia for the things and experiences of childhood, and the resulting perpetuation of certain toys and playthings in the contemporary marketplace. In doing so, it addresses the place of objects in the cross-disciplinary study of play, and the common emphasis on play’s preparatory and adaptive nature. While such nostalgic objects do not introduce children to the technology and social worlds of the future, t…
Investigating absence: Assessing the cumulative effects of casual collecting at a 19th century Bahamian plantation
Recent archaeological work at Prospect Hill, a 19th century plantation in the Bahamas, revealed artifact patterns that are inconsistent with expectations for a plantation site. The quantity and quality of artifacts in residential areas associated with the planter family and the enslaved population were inverted and suggest significant post abandonment changes. The site of Prospect Hill has been a destination for tourists and student groups since …
Status, Sentimentality and Structuration: An Examination of 'Intellectual Spaces' for Children in the Study of America's Historic Cemeteries
This paper presents a case study of the contemporary intellectual and scholarly spaces that children occupy in the study of America’s historic cemeteries. Published works on nineteenth-century cemeteries were evaluated, analytical frameworks were traced, and common themes were identified. The purpose of this exercise was not to evaluate the results of these studies, but rather to examine the ideas that informed them. This particular study identif…
The Paradox of a Capitalist Utopia: Visionary Ideals and Lived Experience in the Pullman Community 1880–1900
The Archaeology of American Labor and Working-Class Life by Paul Shackel
Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation
Making Space for Children in Archaeological Interpretations
Childhood is a prolonged period of dependence during which children mature physically and acquire the cultural knowledge necessary to become accepted members of a society. Members of every culture create and define "children" through the process of socialization, whereby children are taught "acceptable" roles, practices, beliefs, and values by their families, peers, and communities. Socialization creates a culturally specific framework for childr…
Introduction: The Archaeology of Childhood in Context
This introductory chapter contextualizes the volume contents within broader themes and histories in the archaeological and anthropological study of childhood. Some of these broader issues include how archaeologists have situated childhood studies within the discipline, how archaeologists have identified children through the archaeological record, and how the archaeological study of childhood leads to interdisciplinary conversations across the sub…
The Healthy Worker Project: A work-site intervention for weight control and smoking cessation
OBJECTIVES. A randomized trial was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a work-site health promotion program in reducing obesity and the prevalence of cigarette smoking. METHODS. Thirty-two work sites were randomized to treatment or no treatment for 2 years. Treatment consisted of health education classes combined with a payroll-based incentive system. Evaluation was based on cohort and cross-sectional surveys. RESULTS. Of 10,000 total empl…
Making Space for Children in Archaeological Interpretations
Childhood is a prolonged period of dependence during which children mature physically and acquire the cultural knowledge necessary to become accepted members of a society. Members of every culture create and define "children" through the process of socialization, whereby children are taught "acceptable" roles, practices, beliefs, and values by their families, peers, and communities. Socialization creates a culturally specific framework for childr…
Introduction: The Archaeology of Childhood in Context
This introductory chapter contextualizes the volume contents within broader themes and histories in the archaeological and anthropological study of childhood. Some of these broader issues include how archaeologists have situated childhood studies within the discipline, how archaeologists have identified children through the archaeological record, and how the archaeological study of childhood leads to interdisciplinary conversations across the sub…
The Healthy Worker Project: A work-site intervention for weight control and smoking cessation
OBJECTIVES. A randomized trial was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a work-site health promotion program in reducing obesity and the prevalence of cigarette smoking. METHODS. Thirty-two work sites were randomized to treatment or no treatment for 2 years. Treatment consisted of health education classes combined with a payroll-based incentive system. Evaluation was based on cohort and cross-sectional surveys. RESULTS. Of 10,000 total empl…
The Paradox of a Capitalist Utopia: Visionary Ideals and Lived Experience in the Pullman Community 1880–1900
Status, Sentimentality and Structuration: An Examination of 'Intellectual Spaces' for Children in the Study of America's Historic Cemeteries
This paper presents a case study of the contemporary intellectual and scholarly spaces that children occupy in the study of America’s historic cemeteries. Published works on nineteenth-century cemeteries were evaluated, analytical frameworks were traced, and common themes were identified. The purpose of this exercise was not to evaluate the results of these studies, but rather to examine the ideas that informed them. This particular study identif…
The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Materiality of Anxiousness, Worry, and Fear
Investigating absence: Assessing the cumulative effects of casual collecting at a 19th century Bahamian plantation
Recent archaeological work at Prospect Hill, a 19th century plantation in the Bahamas, revealed artifact patterns that are inconsistent with expectations for a plantation site. The quantity and quality of artifacts in residential areas associated with the planter family and the enslaved population were inverted and suggest significant post abandonment changes. The site of Prospect Hill has been a destination for tourists and student groups since …
The Healthy Worker Project: A work-site intervention for weight control and smoking cessation
OBJECTIVES. A randomized trial was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a work-site health promotion program in reducing obesity and the prevalence of cigarette smoking. METHODS. Thirty-two work sites were randomized to treatment or no treatment for 2 years. Treatment consisted of health education classes combined with a payroll-based incentive system. Evaluation was based on cohort and cross-sectional surveys. RESULTS. Of 10,000 total empl…
Making Space for Children in Archaeological Interpretations
Childhood is a prolonged period of dependence during which children mature physically and acquire the cultural knowledge necessary to become accepted members of a society. Members of every culture create and define "children" through the process of socialization, whereby children are taught "acceptable" roles, practices, beliefs, and values by their families, peers, and communities. Socialization creates a culturally specific framework for childr…
Introduction: The Archaeology of Childhood in Context
This introductory chapter contextualizes the volume contents within broader themes and histories in the archaeological and anthropological study of childhood. Some of these broader issues include how archaeologists have situated childhood studies within the discipline, how archaeologists have identified children through the archaeological record, and how the archaeological study of childhood leads to interdisciplinary conversations across the sub…
Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation
The Archaeology of American Labor and Working-Class Life by Paul Shackel
The Paradox of a Capitalist Utopia: Visionary Ideals and Lived Experience in the Pullman Community 1880–1900
Investigating absence: Assessing the cumulative effects of casual collecting at a 19th century Bahamian plantation
Recent archaeological work at Prospect Hill, a 19th century plantation in the Bahamas, revealed artifact patterns that are inconsistent with expectations for a plantation site. The quantity and quality of artifacts in residential areas associated with the planter family and the enslaved population were inverted and suggest significant post abandonment changes. The site of Prospect Hill has been a destination for tourists and student groups since …
Status, Sentimentality and Structuration: An Examination of 'Intellectual Spaces' for Children in the Study of America's Historic Cemeteries
This paper presents a case study of the contemporary intellectual and scholarly spaces that children occupy in the study of America’s historic cemeteries. Published works on nineteenth-century cemeteries were evaluated, analytical frameworks were traced, and common themes were identified. The purpose of this exercise was not to evaluate the results of these studies, but rather to examine the ideas that informed them. This particular study identif…
Building the Next Generation of Anthropological Archaeology
Adult nostalgia and children's toys past and present
This paper explores the role of adult nostalgia for the things and experiences of childhood, and the resulting perpetuation of certain toys and playthings in the contemporary marketplace. In doing so, it addresses the place of objects in the cross-disciplinary study of play, and the common emphasis on play’s preparatory and adaptive nature. While such nostalgic objects do not introduce children to the technology and social worlds of the future, t…
The Freedom that Nighttime Brings: Privacy and Cultural Creativity among Enslaved Peoples at Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Bahamian Plantations
Reflections on Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Childhood in the Past
One of the hallmarks of research on childhood in the past is inclusive, interdisciplinary thinking. This reliance on interdisciplinarity to produce robust scholarship speaks, in part, to the ways we think about children and childhood today, as simultaneously embodied, material, cognitive, intersectional, relational, and developmental. Scholars working and connecting across disciplinary boundaries are also a product of the relatively recent emerge…
Conversations with the dead and the living in Oaxacan bioarchaeology
America’s One-Room Schools: Sites of Regional Authority and Symbols of Local Autonomy, after 1850
The End of American Childhood: A history of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child
The End of American Childhood: A history of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child." Childhood in the Past, 10(1), pp. 96–97
Creating desire and little consumers: Doll advertising in U.S. newspapers, 1860–1900
Archaeology of Childhood
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Education
This article offers an introduction to a special journal issue on nineteenth-century education. The three papers that comprise the issue are geographically and topically diverse, but all present cases of nineteenth-century educational expansion from elite institutions for privileged young men to more diverse populations, including those considered marginal or at risk, including women, the poor and disabled. This introduction contextualizes these …
The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Materiality of Anxiousness, Worry, and Fear
A Arqueologia Histórica da infância nos Estados Unidos
Os Estados Unidos é uma nação relativamente jovem, tendo sido estabelecida há menos de 250 anos, mas, neste breve período, o país passou por um crescimento dramático e uma transformação significativa. As crianças sempre foram centrais na cultura americana, e as fontes históricas e populares reconhecem o poder e a importância das crianças nas famílias, nas comunidades e na nação, assim como seu papel fundamental em influenciar a mudança intergerac…
How to die a good death: Teaching young children about mortality in nineteenth century America
Infant and child mortality in the United States are at an all-time low, but 150 years ago an infant had a 1 in 4 chance of dying in their first year of life, and older children had only slightly better odds of surviving to adulthood. Scholars have questioned parental emotional investment in periods of high infant and child mortality, but few have considered how children understood mortality and the possibility of their own deaths. Adults in the n…
Emotional Practice and Emotional Archaeology: A Perspective from the Archaeology of Childhood
The Rise of the Child Consumer and Interpretations of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century U.S. Domestic Sites
Our Silence Will Be More Powerful Than Words Could Be”: The Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument, Archaeology, and Commemorative Authority
Sociology (15 works) · History (14 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works)