| Description |
x, 433 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Gender and archaeology series ; v. 1
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-411) and index. |
| Contents |
Gender ideology / Sarah Milledge Nelson -- Gender in the South Italian neolithic : a combinatory approach / Ruth D. Whitehouse -- Soul birds and heavenly cows : transforming gender in predynastic Egypt / Fekri A. Hassan and Shelley J. Smith -- Through the looking glass : reflections on mirrors, gender, and use among nomads / Karen Rubinson -- Ideology, power, and gender : emergent complex society in Northeastern China / Sarah Milledge Nelson -- Beauty, sexuality, body ornamentation, and gender in ancient Meso-America / Rosemary Joyce -- Men, women, and Eland : hunting and gender among the San of Southern Africa / John Parkington -- Impact of women on household economies : a Maya case study / Margaret Nelson, Donna Glowacki, and Annette Smith -- Beyond complementarity and hierarchy : new definitions for archaeological gender relations / Joan M. Gero and M. Cristina Scattolin -- Enigma of gender in the archaeological record of the Andaman Islands / Zarine Cooper -- Gender roles depicted in rock art : a case from western Thailand / Rasmi Shoocongdej -- Women in the prehistory of mainland Southeast Asia / C. F. W. Higham -- Mothers' workloads and children's labor during the Woodland period / Cheryl Claassen -- "Sein und werden" : gender as process in mortuary ritual / Bettina Arnold -- Women's lives memorialized in burial in ancient China at Anyang / Katheryn M. Linduff -- Female figure in Umayyad art / Myriam Rosen-Ayalon -- Accessing prestige and power : women in the political economy of protohistoric and early historic Visayan polities / Elisabeth A. Bacus -- Gender in Japanese prehistory / Fumiko Ikawa-Smith -- Gender in human evolution : sociobiology revisited and revised / A. C. Roosevelt. |
| Subject |
Social archaeology.
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Sex role -- History.
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Man-woman relationships -- History.
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Women -- History.
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Women, Prehistoric.
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Feminist archaeology.
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| Added Author |
Nelson, Sarah M., 1931-
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Rosen-Ayalon, Myriam.
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| ISBN |
075910087X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0759100861 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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