Identity and Subsistence: Gender Strategies for Archaeology (Gender and Archaeology) [Hardcover]

Sarah Milledge Nelson (Editor, Contributor), Benjamin Alberti (Contributor), Diane Bolger (Contributor), Hetty Jo Brumbach (Contributor), Bonnie J. Clark (Contributor), Pam Crabtree (Contributor), Sandra E. Hollimon (Contributor), Robert Jarvenpa (Contributor), Jane D. Peterson (Contributor), Barbara L. Voss (Contributor), Laurie A. Wilkie (Contributor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0759111146 | ISBN-13: 978-0759111141 | Publication Date: June 14, 2007 | Edition: annotated edition

Throughout human history, gender has served as one of the ways in which human beings form their identities and then make their way in the world. But it is not the only way: We also discover ourselves through race, age, class, and other categories. Increasingly, archaeologists are recovering evidence of the ways in which gender has been important in identity-formation in the past, especially in its interaction with other social factors. In Identity and Subsistence, a number of scholars look at how the idea of gender has worked with respect to the formation of the self, masculinity and femininity, human evolution, and the development of early agrarian and pastoralist societies.

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About the Author

Sarah Milledge Nelson is John Evans Professor of Archaeology at the University of Denver in the anthropology department and director of Asian studies.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Altamira Press; annotated edition edition (June 14, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0759111146
• ISBN-13: 978-0759111141
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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