This important collection represents current thinking in feminist studies in archaeology. Its contributors are primarily anthropologists but the book also includes essays by a bioanthropologist and an historian of technology. All are leading scholars who, using a range of methodologies and theoretical frameworks, integrate gender into the central questions with which archaeologists have traditionally been concerned.
The book challenges archaeologists to draw on wider feminist discourses in their interpretations of past societies and feminist scholars in other disciplines to consider the new engendered approaches to archaeology presented in the volume.
Contributors include: Gillian Bentley, Elizabeth Brumfiel, Margaret Conkey, Cathy Lynne Costin, Joan Gero, Rosemary Joyce, Judith McGaw, Janet Romanowicz, Ruth Tringham, and the editor.
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Rita P. Wright is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University.
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great edited volume on gender archaeology,
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This book contains many interesting articles on the subject, and is a necessity for those who make gender archaeology their primary course of study.
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feminine technologies, feminine technology, archaic figurines, manikin scepter, engendering archaeology, zoomorphic figurines, prehistoric fertility, temple replicas, net skirt, teaching archaeology, female weavers, excavation block, gender attribution, rim sherds, women weavers, male figurines, cognitive autonomy, archaeology courses, prehistoric women, feminist archaeology, gender complementarity, stone tool production, cloth production, feminist pedagogy, monumental images Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Classic Maya, Basil Blackwell, Arroyo Seco, Late Postclassic, American Anthropological Association, American Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, New Haven, Mexico City, Basin of Mexico, Academic Press, Ann Arbor, Middle Postclassic, Yale University Press, San Francisco, Smithsonian Institution Press, Christine Ward, Department of Anthropology, Exploring Gender, Goddess Movement, Harvard University Press, North America New!
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