Gender and Hide Production

List of contents

1 Foreword by Sarah Milledge Nelson 2 Chapter 1. Introduction to Gender and Hide Production 3 Chapter 2. These Boots Were Made for Walking: Moccasin Production, Gender, and the Late Prehistoric Hideworking Sequence on the High Plains of Colorado 4 Chapter 3. The Shifting Role of Women and Women's Labor on the Protohistoric Southern High Plains 5 Chapter 4. Late Prehistoric Bison Hide Production and Hunter-Gatherer Identities on the North American Plains 6 Chapter 5. Hideworking and Changes in Women's Status among the Arikara, 1700-1862 7 Chapter 6. Gender and the Hide Production Process in Colonial Western Alaska 8 Chapter 7. Gender Visibility and Division of Iñupiat Labor in an Arctic Industrial Enterprise 9 Chapter 8. Examining "Universal" Hide Chewing Practices Among Alaskan Eskimos 10 Chapter 9. Expedient Angled-Tang Endscrapers: Glimpsing Women's Work in the Archaeological Record 11 Chapter 10. Hide Tanning: The Act of Reviving 12 Chapter 11. Hideworking among Descendants of Khoekhoen Pastoralists in the Northern Cape, South Africa 13 Chapter 12. Gender and Stone Tools: An Ethnographic Study of the Konso and Gamo Hideworkers of Southern Ethiopia 14 Chapter 13. Feminist Boundary Crossings: Challenging Androcentric Assumptions and Stereotypes about Hideworking 15 References 16 Index 17 About the Authors

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Edited by Lisa Frink and Kathryn Weedman

Product details

• Assisted by: Lisa Frink (Editor), Kathryn Weedman (Editor)
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2006
• EAN: 9780759108516
• ISBN: 978-0-7591-0851-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 224 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 458 g
• Series: Gender and Archaeology; Gender and Archaeology (Paperb
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research