Reader in gender archaeology / edited by Kelley Hays-Gilpin and David S. Whitley.

Other author Hays-Gilpin, Kelley, 1960-
Other author Whitley, David S.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Descriptionxiv, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesRoutledge readers in archaeology
Routledge readers in archaeology. ^A572614
Contents Introduction : gendering the past -- Archaeology and the study of gender -- Women's archaeology? : political feminism, gender theory and historical revision -- The interplay of evidential constraints and political interests : recent archaeological research on gender -- Woman the gatherer : the role of women in early hominid evolution -- An axe to grind : more ripping yarns from Australian prehistory -- Brain evolution in females : an answer to Mr. Lovejoy -- Male/female task differentiation among the Hidatsa : toward the development of an archaeological approach to the study of gender -- Lithic technology and the hunter-gatherer sexual division of labor -- The development of horticulture in the eastern woodlands of North America : women's role -- Where have all the menstrual huts gone? : the invisibility of menstrual seclusion in the late prehistoric southeast -- Spinning and weaving as female gender identity in post-classic Mexico -- Identifying gender representation in the archaeological record : a contextual study -- The palaeolithic mother-goddess : fact or fiction? -- Women, rituals, and social dynamics at ancient Chalcatzingo -- Skeletal evidence for sex roles and gender hierarchies in prehistory -- Gender hierarchy and the queens of Silla --Women, kinship, and the basis of power in the Norwegian Viking age -- The ancient Californians : Rancholabrean hunters of the Mojave Lakes country -- What this awl means : feminist archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota village -- Boys will be boys : Masculinist approaches to a gendered archaeology.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97030383
ISBN0415173590 (hbk.)
ISBN0415173604 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks CC72.4 .R43 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold