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Edited volume tracing the state of knowledge of gender in Ancient Mayan society.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1. Women and Gender in the Ancient Maya World Chapter 3 2. Gender and Mayan Farming: Chan Noohol, Belize Chapter 4 3. Gender Divisions of Labor and Lowland Terrace Agriculture Chapter 5 4. Spindle Whorls: Household Specialization at Ceren Chapter 6 5. Death Became Her: Imagery of Female Power from Yaxuna Burials Chapter 7 6. Engendering a Dynasty: A Royal Woman in the Margarita Tomb, Copan Chapter 8 7. Lady K'awil, Goddess O, and Maya Warfare Chapter 9 8. Women in Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Texts Chapter 10 9. Women in the Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of Chichen Itza Chapter 11 10. Women-Men (and Men-Women): Classic Maya Rulers and the Third Gender Chapter 12 11. Representations of Women in Postclassic and Colonial Maya Literature and Art Chapter 13 12. Encountering Maya Women Chapter 14 Index Chapter 15 About the Authors
About the author
Traci Ardren is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami. She codirects the Pakbeh Regional Economy Project centered at the ancient Maya trading city of Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico. Her research has focused on gender, iconography, architecture and other forms of symbolic representation in the archaeological record.
