1st Edition
Reader in Gender Archaeology
400 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
This Reader in Gender Archaeology presents nineteen current, controversial and highly influential articles which confront and illuminate issues of gender in prehistory. The question of gender difference and whether it is natural or culturally constructed is a compelling one. The articles here, which draw on evidence from a wide range of geographic areas, demonstrate how all archaeological... Read more
Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors
Part I: Sex, Gender and Archaeology
Part II: Human Origins
Part III: Identifying 'Sexual' Divisions of Labour
Part IV: From Sexual Divisions to Gender Dynamics
Part V: Gender Iconography and Ideology
Part VI: Power and Social Hierarchies
Part VII: New Narratives, New Visions
Glossary Bibliography.
Part I: Sex, Gender and Archaeology
Part II: Human Origins
Part III: Identifying 'Sexual' Divisions of Labour
Part IV: From Sexual Divisions to Gender Dynamics
Part V: Gender Iconography and Ideology
Part VI: Power and Social Hierarchies
Part VII: New Narratives, New Visions
Glossary Bibliography.
Biography
Kelley Hays-Gilpin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University. David S. Whitley is the US representative of ICOMOS and lectures at UCLA.
