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Rietmann F, Schildmann M, Arni C, et al. Knowledge of childhood: materiality, text, and the history of science - an interdisciplinary round table discussion. Br J Hist Sci. 2017;50(1):111-141doi: 10.1017/S000708741700005X.
Rietmann, F., Schildmann, M., Arni, C., Cook, D. T., Giuriato, D., Göhlsdorf, N., & Muigai, W. (2017). Knowledge of childhood: materiality, text, and the history of science - an interdisciplinary round table discussion. British journal for the history of science, 50(1), 111-141. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000708741700005X
Rietmann, Felix, et al. "Knowledge of childhood: materiality, text, and the history of science - an interdisciplinary round table discussion." British journal for the history of science vol. 50,1 (2017): 111-141. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000708741700005X
Rietmann F, Schildmann M, Arni C, Cook DT, Giuriato D, Göhlsdorf N, Muigai W. Knowledge of childhood: materiality, text, and the history of science - an interdisciplinary round table discussion. Br J Hist Sci. 2017 Mar;50(1):111-141. doi: 10.1017/S000708741700005X. Epub 2017 Feb 23. PMID: 28228185.
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Br J Hist Sci. 2017 Mar;50(1):111-141. doi: 10.1017/S000708741700005X. Epub 2017 Feb 23.

Knowledge of childhood: materiality, text, and the history of science - an interdisciplinary round table discussion.

British journal for the history of science

Felix Rietmann, Mareike Schildmann, Caroline Arni, Daniel Thomas Cook, Davide Giuriato, Novina Göhlsdorf, Wangui Muigai

Affiliations

  1. *Program in the History of Science,Princeton University,129 Dickinson Hall,Princeton,NJ 08544-1017,USA. Email:[email protected].
  2. **Deutsches Seminar,Universität Zürich,Schönberggasse 9,CH-8001 Zurich,Switzerland. Email:[email protected].

PMID: 28228185 DOI: 10.1017/S000708741700005X

Abstract

This round table discussion takes the diversity of discourse and practice shaping modern knowledge about childhood as an opportunity to engage with recent historiographical approaches in the history of science. It draws attention to symmetries and references among scientific, material, literary and artistic cultures and their respective forms of knowledge. The five participating scholars come from various fields in the humanities and social sciences and allude to historiographical and methodological questions through a range of examples. Topics include the emergence of children's rooms in US consumer magazines, research on the unborn in nineteenth-century sciences of development, the framing of autism in nascent child psychiatry, German literary discourses about the child's initiation into writing, and the sociopolitics of racial identity in the photographic depiction of African American infant corpses in the early twentieth century. Throughout the course of the paper, childhood emerges as a topic particularly amenable to interdisciplinary perspectives that take the history of science as part of a broader history of knowledge.

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