Companion to Gender Prehistory

Informationen zum Autor Diane Bolger is a Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In addition to her research on gender, she specializes in the ceramics of early agricultural societies in the ancient Near East, particularly in Cyprus, where she has been involved in fieldwork since the early 1980s. Her major publications on gender include three books: Gender in Ancient Cyprus (2003), Engendering Aphrodite: Women and Society in Ancient Cyprus (2002), and Gender through Time in the Ancient Near East (2008). Klappentext An authoritative guide on gender prehistory for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, archaeology, and gender studies* Provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of gender archaeology, with an exclusive focus on prehistory* Offers critical overviews of developments in the archaeology of gender over the last 30 years, as well as assessments of current trends and prospects for future research* Focuses on recent Third Wave approaches to the study of gender in early human societies, challenging heterosexist biases, and investigating the interfaces between gender and status, age, cognition, social memory, performativity, the body, and sexuality* Features numerous regional and thematic topics authored by established specialists in the field, with incisive coverage of gender research in prehistoric and protohistoric cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific "Part 2's strength is its global breadth, with most contributors offering a synthesized and regionally bounded historiography of gender studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." ( Choice, 1 July 2013) Zusammenfassung A Companion to Gender Prehistory offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last few decades into an exploration of the gender dimension in behavior throughout our ancient past. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations x List of Tables xiii Notes on Contributors xiv Acknowledgments xxii Introduction: Gender Prehistory - The Story So Far 1 Diane Bolger Part I Thematic Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 21 Section 1 Current Themes and Debates 21 1 Engendering Human Evolution 23 Adrienne Zihlman 2 Gender, Complexity, and Power in Prehistory 45 Scott R. Hutson, Bryan K. Hanks, and K. Anne Pyburn 3 Archaeology of Embodied Subjectivities 68 Teresa Dujnic Bulger and Rosemary A. Joyce 4 Queer Prehistory: Bodies, Performativity, and Matter 86 Benjamin Alberti 5 The Future of Gender in Prehistoric Archaeology 108 Margaret W. Conkey Section 2 Gender and Prehistoric Material Culture 121 6 Gender and Prehistoric Rock Art 122 Kelley Hays-Gilpin 7 Gender and Lithic Studies in Prehistoric Archaeology 142 Nyree Finlay 8 Gender, Labor, and Pottery Production in Prehistory 161 Diane Bolger 9 Gender and Textile Production in Prehistory 180 Cathy Lynne Costin Section 3 Gendered Bodies and Identities in Prehistory 203 10 Personhood in Prehistory: A Feminist Archaeology in Ten Persons 204 Yvonne Marshall 11 Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Gendered Body 226 Joanna Sofaer 12 Figurines, Corporeality, and the Origins of the Gendered Body 244 Douglass W. Bailey 13 Goddesses in Prehistory 265 Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris Part II Regional Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 289 Section 4 Gender Prehistory in Africa and Asia 289 14 Gender in North African Prehistory 291 Barbara E. Barich 15 Gender in the Prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa 313 Lyn Wadley<...

List of contents

List of Illustrations x
 
List of Tables xiii
 
Notes on Contributors xiv
 
Acknowledgments xxii
 
Introduction: Gender Prehistory - The Story So Far 1
Diane Bolger
 
Part I Thematic Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 21
 
Section 1 Current Themes and Debates 21
 
1 Engendering Human Evolution 23
Adrienne Zihlman
 
2 Gender, Complexity, and Power in Prehistory 45
Scott R. Hutson, Bryan K. Hanks, and K. Anne Pyburn
 
3 Archaeology of Embodied Subjectivities 68
Teresa Dujnic Bulger and Rosemary A. Joyce
 
4 Queer Prehistory: Bodies, Performativity, and Matter 86
Benjamin Alberti
 
5 The Future of Gender in Prehistoric Archaeology 108
Margaret W. Conkey
 
Section 2 Gender and Prehistoric Material Culture 121
 
6 Gender and Prehistoric Rock Art 122
Kelley Hays-Gilpin
 
7 Gender and Lithic Studies in Prehistoric Archaeology 142
Nyree Finlay
 
8 Gender, Labor, and Pottery Production in Prehistory 161
Diane Bolger
 
9 Gender and Textile Production in Prehistory 180
Cathy Lynne Costin
 
Section 3 Gendered Bodies and Identities in Prehistory 203
 
10 Personhood in Prehistory: A Feminist Archaeology in Ten Persons 204
Yvonne Marshall
 
11 Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Gendered Body 226
Joanna Sofaer
 
12 Figurines, Corporeality, and the Origins of the Gendered Body 244
Douglass W. Bailey
 
13 Goddesses in Prehistory 265
Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris
 
Part II Regional Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 289
 
Section 4 Gender Prehistory in Africa and Asia 289
 
14 Gender in North African Prehistory 291
Barbara E. Barich
 
15 Gender in the Prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa 313
Lyn Wadley
 
16 Gender and Archaeology in Coastal East Asia 333
Sarah Milledge Nelson
 
17 Gender Archaeology in East Asia and Eurasia 351
Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson
 
18 Gender in Southwest Asian Prehistory 372
Diane Bolger and Rita P. Wright
 
Section 5 Gender in European Prehistory 395
 
19 The History of Gender Archaeology in Northern Europe 396
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
 
20 Gender in Eastern European Prehistory 413
John Chapman and Nona Palincaº
 
21 Gender and Feminism in the Prehistoric Archaeology of Southwest Europe 438
Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Sandra Montón-Subías
 
22 Gender in British Prehistory 458
Benjamin Edwards and Rachel Pope
 
23 Gender in Central Mediterranean Prehistory 480
Ruth Whitehouse
 
24 Gender in Greek and Aegean Prehistory 502
Louise Hitchcock and Marianna Nikolaidou
 
Section 6 Gender Prehistory in the Americas and the South Pacific 526
 
25 Gender in the Prehistory of the Eastern United States 527
Cheryl Claassen
 
26 The Archaeology of Gender in Western North America 544
Alice Beck Kehoe
 
27 The Archaeology of Gender in Mesoamerica: Moving Beyond Gender Complementarity 564
Elizabeth M. Brumfiel
 
28 Gender in South American Prehistory 585
Melissa A. Vogel and Robyn E. Cutright
 
29 Gender and Archaeology in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the South Pacific 608
Cherrie De Leiuen
 
Index 628

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"In short, as this volume shows us, there is no doubt that the gender perspective has been the strongest theoretical and methodological stimulus for the study of prehistory during the last decades. Adopting such a perspective provides a much more complex panorama of prehistoric societies than that which has been described to date. Such a panorama is, in turn, infinitely more stimulating." (European Journal of Archaeology, 1 March 2014)
 
"Part 2's strength is its global breadth, with most contributors offering a synthesized and regionally bounded historiography of gender studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 July 2013)

Product details

• Authors: Diane (University of Edinburgh Bolger, Bolger Diane
• Assisted by: Diane Bolger (Editor), Bolger Diane (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2012
• EAN: 9780470655368
• ISBN: 978-0-470-65536-8
• No. of pages: 672
• Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology; Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Anthropologie, Archäologie, Anthropology, Archaeology, Prehistoric archaeology, Prähistorische Archäologie, Anthropologie / Geschlechterfragen u. Sexualität, Anthropology of Gender & Sexuality