In Pursuit of Gender

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Preface and Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

1

(8)

Sarah Milledge Nelson

Myriam Rosen-Ayalon

I Gender Ideology

9

(110)

Sarah Milledge Nelson

Gender in the South Italian Neolithic: A Combinatory Approach

15

(28)

Ruth D. Whitehouse

Soul Birds and Heavenly Cows: Transforming Gender in Predynastic Egypt

43

(24)

Fekri A. Hassan

Shelley J. Smith

Through the Looking Glass: Reflections on Mirrors, Gender, and Use among Nomads

67

(6)

Karen Rubinson

Ideology, Power, and Gender: Emergent Complex Society in Northeastern China

73

(8)

Sarah Milledge Nelson

Beauty, Sexuality, Body Ornamentation, and Gender in Ancient Meso-America

81

(12)

Rosemary Joyce

Men, Women, and Eland: Hunting and Gender among the San of Southern Africa

93

(26)

John Parkington

II Gender Roles

119

(116)

Sarah Milledge Nelson

The Impact of Women on Household Economies: A Maya Case Study

125

(30)

Margaret Nelson

Donna Glowacki

Annette Smith

Beyond Complementarity and Hierarchy: New Definitions for Archaeological Gender Relations

155

(18)

Joan M. Gero

M. Cristina Scattolin

The Enigma of Gender in the Archaeological Record of the Andaman Islands

173

(14)

Zarine Cooper

Gender Roles Depicted in Rock Art: A Case from Western Thailand

187

(20)

Rasmi Shoocongdej

Women in the Prehistory of Mainland Southeast Asia

207

(18)

C.F.W. Higham

Mothers' Workloads and Children's Labor during the Woodland Period

225

(10)

Cheryl Claassen

III Gender Relations

235

(142)

Sarah Milledge Nelson

``Sein und Werden'': Gender as Process in Mortuary Ritual

239

(18)

Bettina Arnold

Women's Lives Memorialized in Burial in Ancient China at Anyang

257

(32)

Katheryn M. Linduff

The Female Figure in Umayyad Art

289

(18)

Myriam Rosen-Ayalon

Accessing Prestige and Power: Women in the Political Economy of Protohistoric and Early Historic Visayan Polities

307

(16)

Elisabeth A. Bacus

Gender in Japanese Prehistory

323

(32)

Fumiko Ikawa-Smith

Gender in Human Evolution: Sociobiology Revisited and Revised

355

(22)

A. C. Roosevelt

Bibliography

377

(36)

Index

413

(14)

About the Contributors

427

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