Engendering Archaeology Women and Prehistory

This pathbreaking book brings gender issues to archaeology for the first time, in an explicit and theoretically informed way. In it, leading archaeologists from around the world contribute original analyses of prehistoric data to discover how gender systems operated in the past.

Joan M. Gero is Assistant Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. She has previously edited The Sociopolitics of Archaeology.

Margaret W. Conkey is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Californis, at Berkeley.

Preface
Considerations for an Archaeology of Gender:
Tensions, Pluralities, and Engendering Archaeology: An Introduction to Women and Prehistory
Gender Theory and the Archaeological Record: Why is There No Archaeology of Gender?
Space and Gender Relations:
Contexts of Action, Contexts for Power: Material Culture and Gender in the Magdalenian
Households with Faces: The Challenge of Gender in Prehistoric Architectural Remains
Gender, Space and Food in Prehistory
Material Aspects of Gender Production:
Genderlithics: Women's Role in Stone Tool Production
Women's Labor and Pottery Production in Prehistory
Weaving and Cooking: Women's Production in Aztec Mexico
Gender and Food Systems:
The Development of Horticulture in the Eastern Woodlands of North America: Women's Role
Shellfishing and the Shell Mound Archaic
Pounding Acorn: Women's Production as Social and Economic Focus: Thomas Jackson (Biosystems Analysis, Inc.)
Images of Gender:
Whose Art was Found at Lepenski Vir? Gender Relations and Power in Prehistory
Women in a Men's World: Images of Sumerian Women
What this All Means: Towards a Feminist Archaeology
Epilogue
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

FREE SHIPPING

Rent More, Save More! Use code: BBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Engendering Archaeology Women and Prehistory

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

FREE SHIPPING

Rent More, Save More! Use code: BBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Engendering Archaeology Women and Prehistory

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Digital License