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Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood - A Comparative Ethnoarchaeology of Gender and Subsistence

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Informationen zum Autor Robert Jarvenpa is a professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany. His books include Northern Passage: Ethnography and Apprenticeship among the Subarctic Dene. Hetty Jo Brumbach is an associate curator of anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany. She is the author of many reports and articles, which have appeared in such journals as Arctic Anthropology, Man in the Northeast, American Antiquity, and Human Ecology. Klappentext Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood is a cross-cultural ethnoarchaeological study of the gendered nature of subsistence in northern hunter-gatherer-fisher societies. Based on field studies of four circumpolar societies, it documents the complexities of women's and men's involvement in food procurement, processing, and storage, and the relationship of such behaviors to the built landscape. Avoiding simplistic stereotypes of male and female roles, the framework of "gendered landscapes" reveals the variability and flexibility of women's and men's actual lives in a manner useful for archaeological interpretations of hunter-foragers. Innovative in scope and design, this is the first study to employ a controlled, four-way, cross-cultural comparison of gender and subsistence. Members of an international team of anthropologists experienced in northern scholarship apply the same task-differentiation methodology in studies of Chipewyan hunter-fishers of Canada, Khanty hunter-fisher-herders of Western Siberia, Sámi intensive reindeer herders of northwestern Finland, and Iñupiaq maritime hunters of the Bering Strait of Alaska. This database on gender and subsistence is used to reassess one of the bedrock concepts in anthropology and social science: the sexual division of labor. Zusammenfassung A cross-cultural ethnoarchaeological study of the gendered nature of subsistence in northern hunter-gatherer-fisher societies. Based on field studies of circumpolar societies! it documents the complexities of women's and men's involvement in food procurement! processing! and storage! and the relationship of such behaviors to the built landscape. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables; List of Maps; List of Figures; Preface; Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Gender! Subsistence and Ethnoarchaeology Robert Jarvenpa (University of Albany) and Hetty Jo Brumbach (University of Albany); 2 Chipewyan Society and Gender Relations Hetty Jo Brumbach and Robert Jarvenpa; 3 Chipewyan Hunters: A Task Differentiation Analysis Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach; 4 Khanty Society and Gender Relations Elena Glavatskaya (Urals State University! Ekaterinburg! Russia); 5 Khanty Hunter-Fisher-Herders: A Task Differentiation Analysis of Trom'Agan Women's and Men's Subsistence Activities Elena Glavatskaya; 6 Sami Society and Gender Relations Jukka Pennanen (University of Oulu! Finland); 7 Sami Reindeer Breeders: A Task Differentiation Analysis Jukka Pennanen; 8 Inupiaq Society and Gender Relations Carol Zane Jolles (University of Washington! Seattle); 9 Inupiaq Maritime Hunters: Subsistence Work in Diomede Carol Zane Jolles; 10 Conclusion: Toward a Comparative Ethnoarchaeology of Gender Hetty Jo Brumbach and Robert Jarvenpa ...

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Authors Robert Brumbach Jarvenpa
Assisted by Hetty Jo Brumbach (Editor), Robert Jarvenpa (Editor)
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.12.2008
 
EAN 9780803220782
ISBN 978-0-8032-2078-2
No. of pages 332
Dimensions 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

Ethnic Studies, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General

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