Synopses & Reviews
Material culture, the subject of much archaeological research, has only recently been studied as evidence of gender relations. Case studies drawn from many different periods and areas develop concepts and theories as diverse as the social contexts of production and artifact use to the construction of food as a gendered social medium. The worldwide contributors critique traditional approaches and consider feminist and non-heterosexual gender perspectives.
Synopsis
Case studies drawn from many different periods and areas develop concepts and theories as diverse as the social contexts of production and artifact.
About the Author
Moira Donald is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter.
Linda Hurcombe is Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Exeter.
Table of Contents
Introduction--Linda Hurcombe *
Part I: Questioning Perspectives * The Material Culture of the Homosexual Male: A Case for Archaeological Exploration--Keith Matthews * Sisters Are Doing it For Themselves?: Gender, Feminism and Australian (Aboriginal) Archaeology--Sarah Colley * A Sexist Present, A Human-Less Past: Museum Archaeology in Greece--Dimitra Kokkinidou & Marianna Nikolaidou * Gender: Enabling Perspective or Politically Correct Term?: An Analysis of How Gender and Material Culture Are Viewed by 1990s Academia--Mary Baker *
Part II: Social Contexts for Crafts, Technology and Production * Gender and Craft Innovation: Proposal of a Model--Louise Senior * Time, Skill and Craft Specialization as Gender Relations--Linda Hurcombe * Time, Gender and Production: A Critical Evaluation of Archaeological Time Concepts--Charlotte Brysting Damm * Who Lights the Fire?: Gender and the Energy of Production--Jenny Moore *
Part III: Artifacts and their Social Settings * Long Handed Weaving Combs: Problems in Determining the Gender of Tool-Maker and Tool-User--Tina Tuohy * The Use of Space in a Gender Study of Two South African Stone Age Sites--Lynn Wadley * Gender, Material Culture, Ritual and Gender System: A Prehistoric Example Based on Sickles--Catherine Johnsson, Karolina Ross & Stig Welinder *
Part IV: Diets, Bodies and Burials * Fat is a Feminist Issue: On Ideology, Diet and Health in Hunter-Gatherer Societies--Marek Zvelebil * The Anthropology and Archaeology of Mesolithic Gender in the Western Baltic--Christopher Meiklejohn, Erik Brinch Petersen & Verner Alexandersen * The Gendering of Children in the Early Bronze Age Cemetery at Mokrin--Elizabeth Rega * Classic Maya Diet and Gender Relationships--John Gerry & Meredith Chesson * Index