1. Edition - April 2010
26.90 Euro
2010. 124 Pages, Softcover
ISBN-10: 1-4443-3403-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-3403-6 - John Wiley & Sons








Detailed description
This volume demonstrates how archaeological data viewed through the lens of gender studies can lead researchers to question and reformulate current models of household organization, subsistence and craft production, ritual performance, and the structure of ancient states. Existing models of prehistoric societies often assume the existence of rigidly binary gender systems. After three decades of feminist anthropology, few archaeologists claim that sex/gender roles and identities are fixed by human biology, yet a residue of assumptions from earlier views of male and female roles continues to color archaeologists' understandings of their data.

From the contents
1. Gender, Households, and Society: An Introduction (Elizabeth M. Brumfiel and Cynthia Robin).

2. Looking Beyond Gender Hierarchy: Rethinking Gender at Teotihuacan, Mexico (Kristin De Lucia).

3. Hearths, Grinding Stones, and Households: Rethinking Domestic Economy in the Andes (Robin Coleman Goldstein).

4. Breaking Down Binaries: Gender, Art, and Tools in Ancient Costa Rica (Theresa Preston-Werner).

5. Situating Power and Locating Knowledge: A Paleoethnobotanical Perspective on Late Classic Maya Gender and Social Relations (Christopher T. Morehart and Christophe G. B. Helmke).

6. Changing Responsibilities and Collective Action: Examining Early North African Pastoralism (Alexandra Miller).

7. Rethinking Polity Formation: A Gendered Perspective on Formative Period Household Development in the Pacific Coast Region of Guatemala (Ana S. Tejeda).

8. She Sells Seashells: Women and Mollusks in Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico (Dawn Pankonien).

9. Shaken, Not Stirred: The Revolution in Archaeology (K. Anne Pyburn).

List of Contributors.