Reading the body : representations and remains in the archaeolgical record / edited by Alison E. Rautman.

Other author Rautman, Alison E.
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2000.
Descriptionviii, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesRegendering 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-267) and index.
LCCN 99033513
ISBN0812235215 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0812217098 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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