Gender in African Prehistory

Gender in African Prehistory provides methods and theories for delineating and discussing prehistoric gender relations and their change through time. Sites studied range from Egypt to South Africa and Ghana to Tanzania, while time periods span the Stone Age to the period just prior to colonialization.

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 Gender and Prehistory in Africa

9

(16)

Susan Kent

PERSPECTIVES OF GENDER FROM THE AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD

25

(236)

Chapter 2 Resolving the Past: Gender in the Stone Age Archaeological Record of the Western Cape

25

(14)

John Parkington

Chapter 3 Invisible Gender--Invisible Foragers: Southern African Hunter-Gatherer Spatial Patterning and the Archaeological Record

39

(30)

Susan Kent

Chapter 4 The Invisible Meat Providers: Women in the Stone Age of South Africa

69

(14)

Lyn Wadley

Chapter 5 Just a Formality: The Presence of Fancy Projectile Points in a Basic Tool Assemblage

83

(22)

Joanna Casey

Chapter 6 Social Variability Among Holocene Saharan Groups: How to Recognize Gender

105

(10)

Barbara Barich

Chapter 7 Gender and Early Pastoralists in East Africa

115

(24)

Diane Gifford-Gonzalez

Chapter 8 Reading Gender in the Ancient Iron Technology of Africa

139

(24)

Peter Schmidt

Chapter 9 Gendered Technologies and Gendered Activities in the Interlacustrine Early Iron Age

163

(16)

Rachel MacLean

Chapter 10 Engendered Spaces Bodily Practices in the Iron Age of Southern African

179

(26)

Paul Lane

Chapter 11 Men and Women in a Market Economy: Gender and Craft Production in West Central Ghana c. 1775-1995

205

(22)

Ann B. Stahl

Maria das Dores Cruz

Chapter 12 Daughters of Cattle: The Significance of Herding in the Growth of Complex Societies in Southern Africa Between the 10th and 15th Centuries AD

227

(8)

Alinah Segobye

Chapter 13 A Consideration of Gender Relations in the Late Iron Age "Sotho" Sequence of the Western Highveld, South Africa

235

(26)

Simon Hall

COMMENTARIES AND PERSPECTIVES

261

(34)

Chapter 14 Toward an Archaeology of Gender in Africa

261

(18)

Fekri Hassan

Chapter 15 Views of Gender in African Prehistory from a Middle Eastern Perspective

279

(6)

Ofer Bar-Yosef

Anna Belfer-Cohen

Chapter 16 Reflections on Gender Studies in African and Asian Archaeology

285

(10)

Sarah Milledge Nelson

Bibliography

295

(48)

About the Authors

343

(6)

Index

349

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Gender in African Prehistory

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