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Material culture, the substance 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 context of production and artefact use to the construction of food as a gendered social medium. The international contributors critique traditional approaches and consider feminist and non-heterosexual gender perspectives.
List of contents
Notes on the Contributors Introduction; L.Hurcombe PART ONE: QUESTIONING PERSPECTIVES The Material Culture of the Homosexual Male: A Case for Archaeological Exploration; K.Matthews Sisters are Doing it for Themselves? Gender, Feminism and Australian (Aboriginal) Archaeology; S.Colley A Sexist Present, a Human-less Past: Museum Archaeology in Greece; D.Kokkinidou & M.Nikolaidou Gender: Enabling Perspective or Politically Correct Term? An Analysis of How Gender and Material Culture are Viewed by 1990s Academia; M.Baker PART TWO: SOCIAL CONTEXTS FOR CRAFTS, TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION Gender and Craft Innovation: Proposal of a Model; L.Senior Time, Skill and Craft Specialisation as Gender Relations; L.Hurcombe Time, Gender and Production: A Critical Evaluation of Archaeological Time Concepts; C.B.Damm Who Lights the Fire? Gender and the Energy of Production; J.Moore PART THREE: ARTEFACTS AND THEIR SOCIAL SETTINGS Long Handled Weaving Combs: Problems in Determining the Gender of Tool-maker and Tool-user; T.Tuohy The Use of Space in a Gender Study of Two South African Stone Age Sites; L.Wadley Gender, Material Culture, Ritual and Gender System: A Prehistoric Example Based on Sickles; C.Johnsson, K.Ross & S.Welinder Lithic Functional Analysis as a Means of Studying Gender and Material Culture in Prehistory ; L.Owen PART FOUR: DIET, BODIES AND BURIALS Fat is a Feminist Issue: On Ideology, Diet and Health in Hunter-gathering Societies; M.Zvelebil The Anthropology and Archaeology of Mesolithic Gender in the Western Baltic; C.Meiklejohn, E.B.Petersen & V.Alexandersen The Gendering of Children in the Early Bronze Age Cemetery at Mokrin; E.Rega Classic Maya Diet and Gender Relationships; J.Gerry & M.Chesson Index
About the author
VERNER ALEXANDERSEN Lecturer, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Copenhagen, Panun Institute
MARY BAKER details not yet supplied)
CHARLOTTE BRYSTING DAMM Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University of Tromsi, Northern Norway
MEREDITH S. CHESSON Postdoctoral tutor in Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
SARAH COLLEY Lecturer, School of Archaeology, University of Sydney
JOHN GERRY Lecturer in Anthropology and Academic Dean, Harvard University
CATHERINE JOHNSSON MA Degree, Department of Archaeology, University of Uppsala, Sweden
DIMITRI KOKKINIDOU Greek Language Adviser, Department of Education, Victoria, and Associate, Department of Classics and Anthropology, Monash University, Melbourne
KEITH MATTHEWS Senior Archaeologist, Chester City Council
CHRISTOPHER MEIKLEJOHN Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg, Canada
JENNY MOORE Editor, Institute of Field Archaeologists
MARIANNA NIKOLAIDOU Research Associate, Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
LINDA OWEN Part-time lecturer in Archaeology, University of Tubingen
ERIK BRINCH PETERSEN Professor, Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology, University of Copenhagen
ELIZABETH REGA Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, W.M.Keck Science Center, Claremont Colleges
CAROLINE ROSS MA Degree, Department of Archaeology, University of Uppsala, Sweden
LOUISE SENIOR (details not yet supplied)
