Childhood and Identity Acquisition in the Late Prehispanic Ónavas Valley, Sonora, Mexico
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Arizona State Museum, University of ArizonaSchool of Anthropology, University of Arizona
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2021-05-03Keywords
childhoodcranial modification
dental modification
Identity
mortuary practices
Northwest Mexico
social roles
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Cristina García-Moreno, Patricia Olga Hernández Espinoza & James T. Watson (2021) Childhood and Identity Acquisition in the Late Prehispanic Ónavas Valley, Sonora, Mexico, Childhood in the Past, 14:1, 38-54, DOI: 10.1080/17585716.2021.1901338Journal
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
Identity acquisition is a lifelong process that begins prior to birth (passive), becomes more active with self-awareness, and continues throughout the enculturation process. We argue that in childhood, as a liminal period of the life course, individuals are subject to a combination of active and passive forces of identity acquisition, largely determined first by family/parental decisions, then by community decisions as part of the enculturation process. We test this idea by reconstructing episodes of identity acquisition across social age categories in a late prehispanic (AD 900–1300) skeletal sample from the site of El Cementerio from north-west Mexico, which represents the central community of a settlement system in the valley of Ónavas, Sonora, Mexico. Artificial cranial modification, dental modification, and the placement of funerary objects reflect intersecting identities and provide clues to social age and identity acquisition within the community.Note
18 month embargo; published online: 03 May 2021ISSN
1758-5716EISSN
2040-8528Version
Final accepted manuscriptae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/17585716.2021.1901338