The Archaeology of Identities: A Reader

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ISBN: 9780415415026 | 0415415020
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Copyright: 1/5/2007

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This definitive sourcebook collates seminal articles from this increasingly important field, to present a comprehensive and well-balanced representation of approaches and interests in a single volume for students, lecturers and researchers.

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List of contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of figures and tables	p. xi
Introduction: configuring identities in archaeology	p. 1
General perspectives, ethnicity, and nationalism	p. 19
An introduction	p. 21
Archaeologies of identity	p. 23
Discourses of identity in the interpretation of the past	p. 44
The politics of identity in archaeology	p. 59
Gender and age	p. 73
An introduction	p. 75
Girling the girl and boying the boy: the production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica	p. 77
Engendering children, engendering archaeology	p. 87
The constitution of archaeological evidence: gender politics and science	p. 97
Sexuality	p. 119
An introduction	p. 121
Feminisms, queer theories, and the archaeological study of past sexualities	p. 124
Faience goddesses and ivory bull-leapers: the aesthetics of sexual difference at Late Bronze Age Knossos	p. 137
Beyond Mother Earth and Father Sky: sex and gender in Ancient Southwestern visual arts and ethnography	p. 154
The body	p. 175
An introduction	p. 177
Accessing the inaccessible: disability and archaeology	p. 179
Hidden or overlooked? Where are the disadvantaged in the skeletal record?	p. 195
Archaeology's humanism and the materiality of the body	p. 211
Class, caste, ideology, and religion	p. 225
An introduction	p. 227
Archaeology and the invisible man: the role of slavery in the production of wealth and social class in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, 1820 to 1870	p. 230
The archaeological visibility of caste: an introduction	p. 250
Huitzilopochtli's conquest: Aztec ideology in the archaeological record	p. 265
Ritual and rationality: some problems of interpretation in European archaeology	p. 281
Changing identities in the Arabian Gulf: archaeology, religion, and ethnicity in context	p. 308
Index	p. 326
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