A Global History of Child Death ─ Mortality, Burial, and Parental Attitudes

Catalano presents students, academics, and researchers with an interdisciplinary investigation of the history of child funerary practices and other modes of grieving, utilizing primary studies in art, literature, historical analysis, and archaeology. The author has organized the main body of her text in two parts covering, mortality and burial practices through history and indicators of parental attitudes toward child death. Catalano argues against, and at times supports the commonly held belief that, due to its frequency, child death was rarely mourned prior to twentieth century. Amy J. Catalano is a faculty member of Hofstra University, New York. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Amy J. Catalano is an associate professor at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York. As a research librarian and expert in children’s literature, she works primarily with education students and studies how children and adolescents learn in various contexts. She earned her doctorate in teaching and learning with a specialization in human development at Hofstra University. In addition to studying how students learn, Dr. Catalano studies parent-child relationships both in contemporary society and historically.