The Age of Birthdays

Birthdays were invented by the candle industry to sell more number-shaped candles. Or were they invented by the government to stop child labor? Or did the Romans do it? Do we even need birthdays? https://discord.gg/sk9DbrFWZP https://www.patreon.com/nakarispeardane https://ko-fi.com/nakari "Garden Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Books: The Aging Experience: Diversity and Commonality Across Cultures, Project AGE Fundamentals of Age-Group Systems - Frank Henderson Stuart The Masai, their language and folklore - Alfred Claud Hollis Arapaho child life and its cultural background - Hilger Abduction, Marriage and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries - Chanelle Delameillieure (more books on PC) Seeing Like a State - James C Scott Chinese Astrology: An Outside History - Xiaoyuan Jiang How Old Are You? Age Consciousness in American Culture - Howard P Chudacott Age and Anthropological Theory - David Kertzer + Jennie Keith Articles: Lugalanda - https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/first-account-of-a-birthday-in-human-history/viewer Maasai Age-Sets and Prophetic Leadership: 1850-1910 - https://www.jstor.org/stable/1158670 Fore Age Mates - https://www.jstor.org/stable/40329773 The Conditions Favoring Age-Set Organization - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3629554 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/ah18ry/when_did_humans_start_keeping_track_of_their_age/ Creating New Traditions in Modern Chinese Populations: Aiming for Birth in the Year of the Dragon - https://www.jstor.org/stable/1973601 Chinese Lunar Birth Timing in Singapore: New Concerns for Child Quality amidst Multicultural Modernity - https://www.jstor.org/stable/353736 Life-Cycle Rituals in Dongyang County: Time, Affinity, and Exchange in Rural China - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3773788 Babylonian Horoscopes - https://www.jstor.org/stable/1006632 Birthday Rituals: Friends and Patrons in Roman Poetry and Cult - https://www.jstor.org/stable/25010971 The Birthday as a Commonplace of Roman Elegy - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3288051 https://www.representingchildhood.pitt.edu/pdf/18th_child.pdf Memory and Proof of Age in England 1272-1327 - https://www.jstor.org/stable/651063 Intentional Age-Misreporting, Age-Heaping, and the 1908 Old Age Pensions Act in Ireland - https://www.jstor.org/stable/2174865 Consequences of Sex Education on Teen and Young Adult Sexual Behaviors and Outcomes - https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X%2811%2900717-8/fulltext Abstinence-Only Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3194801/ Working-Class Experience and State Social Welfare, 1908-1914: Old Age Pensions Reconsidered - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3133528 https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/edith-goodyear-alger-lyricist-of-happy-birthday-to-you/ Debating the Birthday - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/722922 https://www.newenglandrecipes.org/html/birthday-cake.html Celebrations of Bureaucracy: Birthday Parties in Israeli Kindergartens - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3773686 The democratic king: The role of ritualized flattery in political discourse - https://www.jstor.org/stable/27211612 Images are all either public domain or used via Creative Commons licence