Ambiguous Images

Gender and Rock Art

Kelley Hays-Gilpin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2003
Altamira Press (Verlag)
978-0-7591-0065-7 (ISBN)

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States that rock art is often one of the strongest lines of evidence available to scholars in understanding ritual practices, gender roles, and ideological constructs of prehistoric peoples. This book argues that art is both a product of its physical and social environment and a tool of influence in shaping behavior and ideas within a society.

What does rock art say about gender and how can our understanding of gender shape the way that we view rock art? A significant contribution to the relatively unexplored field of gender in rock art, this volume contains a wealth of information for archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians interested in past gender systems. Hays-Gilpin argues that art is at once a product of its physical and social environment and at the same time a tool of influence in shaping behavior and ideas within a society. Taking this stance, rock art is shown to be very often one of the strongest lines of evidence avaliable to scholars in understanding ritual practices, gender roles, and ideologicial constructs of prehistoric peoples. Subsequently issues of representation and the people who made these forms of art are also discussed.

Kelley Hays-Gilpin teaches archaeology, ceramic analysis, and a rock art course at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, just hours from Petrified Forest National Park and her favorite rock art. She received her PhD in anthropology at the University of Arizona in 1992, then worked for the Navajo Nation Archaeology Department for several years. She has co-authored books on prehistoric sandals of northern Arizona and pottery of Arizona's Puerco Valley, and co-edited the Reader in Gender Archaeology with David S. Whitley. Current projects include collaboration with the Museum of Northern Arizon, Harvard Peabody Museum, and the Hopi Tribe on the Southwest Mural Project, a multidisciplinary study of 15th-17th century dry fresco painting from the Puebloan region.

Part 1 List of Figures
Part 2 Foreword
Part 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Rock Art and Gender on the Margins
Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Recognizing Sex and Gender
Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Engendering and Degendering Paleolithic Europe's Cave Paintings
Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Regendering Fertility Shrines in the West
Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Separate Spheres: Who Made Rock Art?
Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Lifecycles and Puberty Rites
Chapter 10 Chapter 7: "Maidens" and Fluteplayers in the Southwestern United States
Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Sacred Landscapes and Social Landscapes
Chapter 12 Chapter 9: Women, Men, Ritual and Rock Art
Chapter 13 Chapter 10: Shamans with History
Chapter 14 Chapter 11: Taking Rock Art Seriously
Part 15 References
Part 16 About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.1.2004
Reihe/Serie	Gender and Archaeology
Verlagsort	California
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 229 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
ISBN-10	0-7591-0065-9 / 0759100659
ISBN-13	978-0-7591-0065-7 / 9780759100657
Zustand	Neuware