Reading the body : representations and remains in the archaeolgical record / edited by Alison E. Rautman.
| Other author | Rautman, Alison E. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2000. |
| Description | viii, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Regendering the past Regendering the past. ^A461491 |
| Contents | Introduction : diverse approaches to the study of gender in archaeology -- Writing the body in archaeology -- Sex, health, and gender roles among the Arikara of the Northern Plains -- Labor patterns in the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age -- Reconstructing the lives of South Etruscan women -- Gender in Inuit burial practices -- The status of women in predynastic Egypt as revealed through mortuary analysis -- The human form in the Late Bronze Age Aegean -- Deciphering gender in Minoan dress -- Fear and gender in Greek art -- Mississippian weavers -- Prehistoric and ethnographic Pueblo gender roles : continuity of lifeways from the eleventh to the early twentieth century -- And they said, let us make gods in our image : gendered ideologies in ancient Mesopotamia -- Beyond Mother Earth and Father Sky : ancient Egyptian beliefs about conception and fertility -- Female figurines in the European Upper Paleolithic : politics and bias in archaeological interpretation. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-267) and index. |
| LCCN | 99033513 |
| ISBN | 0812235215 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0812217098 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | Item has been checked out | CC72.4 .R444 2000 | Due 12/01/2026 | Want This? |