Reader in Gender Archaeology

Informationen zum Autor Kelley Hays-Gilpin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University. David S. Whitley is the US representative of ICOMOS and lectures at UCLA. Klappentext The "Reader in Gender Archaeology" presents nineteen current, controversial and highly influential articles which confront and illuminate issues of gender in prehistory. The articles here, which draw on evidence from a wide range of geographic areas, explore the subject of gender difference and its construction as a natural or cultural one. The contributors demonstrate how archaeological investigation can benefit from an awareness of issues of gender and show how the long-term nature of archaeological research can also inform the gender debate across the disciplines. Zusammenfassung Reader in Gender Archaeology presents nineteen current, controversial and highly influential articles which confront and illuminate issues of gender in prehistory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Acknowledgements. List of ContributorsPart I: Sex, Gender and ArchaeologyPart II: Human OriginsPart III: Identifying 'Sexual' Divisions of LabourPart IV: From Sexual Divisions to Gender DynamicsPart V: Gender Iconography and IdeologyPart VI: Power and Social HierarchiesPart VII: New Narratives, New VisionsGlossary Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: K. Hays-Gilpin, Kelley Whitley Hays-Gilpin
• Assisted by: Kelley Hays-Gilpin (Editor), Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin (Editor), David S. Whitley (Editor), Whitley David S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.1998
• EAN: 9780415173599
• ISBN: 978-0-415-17359-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Routledge Readers in Archaeolo; Routledge Readers in Archaeology; Routledge Readers in Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Gender studies, gender groups, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology