Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
In this volume classical archaeologists and anthropologists discuss mutually beneficial perspectives in method and theory as these relate to issues of gender.In this volume classical archaeologists and anthropologists discuss mutually beneficial perspectives in method and theory as these relate to issues of gender.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-267) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction : diverse approaches to the study of gender in archaeology -- Writing the body in archaeology -- Sex, health, and gender roles among the Arikara of the Northern Plains -- Labor patterns in the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age -- Reconstructing the lives of South Etruscan women -- Gender in Inuit burial practices -- The status of women in predynastic Egypt as revealed through mortuary analysis -- The human form in the Late Bronze Age Aegean -- Deciphering gender in Minoan dress -- Fear and gender in Greek art -- Mississippian weavers -- Prehistoric and ethnographic Pueblo gender roles : continuity of lifeways from the eleventh to the early twentieth century -- And they said, let us make gods in our image : gendered ideologies in ancient Mesopotamia -- Beyond Mother Earth and Father Sky : ancient Egyptian beliefs about conception and fertility -- Female figurines in the European Upper Paleolithic : politics and bias in archaeological interpretation.