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Laurie A. Wilkie
The Archaeology of Mothering [EPUB ebook]
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Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9781136755446 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2003 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2574103 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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