This pathbreaking book brings gender issues to archaeology for the first time, in an explicit and theoretically informed way. In it, leading archaeologists from around the world contribute original analyses of prehistoric data to discover how gender systems operated in the past.
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"Engendering Archaeology advances significantly the small but growing literature on gender in archeology." Archeology
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Over the past twenty years, feminist thinking has profoundly influenced almost every field of the humanities and social sciences, and has impinged upon both the content and methodology of social enquiry. Moreover, human social structures in prehistory have always been a subject of great interest to feminist scholars, who have sought in them an understanding of the origins of inequality between the sexes and of the part women have played in the rise of societies and states.
This pathbreaking book brings gender issues to archaeology for the first time, in an explicit and theoretically informed way. In it, leading archaeologists from around the world contribute original analyses of prehistoric data to discover how gender systems operated in the past. The scope of the studies is broad: chapters range from hunter-gatherer societies, through early agricultural communities, to civilizations of the Old and the New Worlds, across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Discussion of such diverse archaeological arenas as art, the domestication of plants, shellfishing, acorn processing, stone tool production and ceramics, and the arrangement and use of space for social, residential and work activities, demonstrates how the extent and significance of woman's role in the prehistoric world has previously been devalued.
Engendering Archaeology exposes the androcentric nature of traditional archaeological enquiry, from its assumptions and preconceptions to the presentation of evidence and knowledge. It questions the accounts of mankind's history that have been common currency, and demonstrates convincingly the centrality of the past to any considerations of gender.
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The title of this volume is Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory; the chapters are intended to contribute to the study of gender systems in both prehistory and the practice of archaeology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
engendered prehistory, okiye win, large spindle whorls, small spindle whorls, task differentiation framework, whorl frequencies, mortar features, banquet seals, feminist archaeology, paleoethnobotanical data, bedrock mortars, awl handle, paired valves, mortar facilities, household archaeology, lithic studies, pounding acorn, northern flint, pottery production, lithic production, pottery technology, shell accumulation, flake tools, stone tool production, house replacement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Lepenski Vir, Cambridge University Press, Academic Press, Little Rapids, Upper Paleolithic, American Antiquity, North America, Valley of Mexico, Ann Arbor, Eastern Woodlands, Royal Cemetery, Sierra Nevada, University of Chicago Press, Department of Anthropology, Cueto de la Mina, Shell Mound Archaic, University of Michigan, Late Aztec, Journal of Women, University Microfilms, Western Mono, Columbia University Press, Green River, Smithsonian Institution New!
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The title of this volume is Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory; the chapters are intended to contribute to the study of gender systems in both prehistory and the practice of archaeology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
engendered prehistory, okiye win, large spindle whorls, small spindle whorls, task differentiation framework, whorl frequencies, mortar features, banquet seals, feminist archaeology, paleoethnobotanical data, bedrock mortars, awl handle, paired valves, mortar facilities, household archaeology, lithic studies, pounding acorn, northern flint, pottery production, lithic production, pottery technology, shell accumulation, flake tools, stone tool production, house replacement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Lepenski Vir, Cambridge University Press, Academic Press, Little Rapids, Upper Paleolithic, American Antiquity, North America, Valley of Mexico, Ann Arbor, Eastern Woodlands, Royal Cemetery, Sierra Nevada, University of Chicago Press, Department of Anthropology, Cueto de la Mina, Shell Mound Archaic, University of Michigan, Late Aztec, Journal of Women, University Microfilms, Western Mono, Columbia University Press, Green River, Smithsonian Institution New!
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- Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series by John Berger on page 362, page 366, and page 385
- Feminism and Materialism: Women and Modes of Production by Annette Kuhn on page 126, page 130, and page 364
- Reading the Past by I. Hodder on page 53, page 129, and page 363
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