In Pursuit of Gender

Worldwide Archaeological Approaches

Sarah Milledge Nelson, Myriam Rosen-Ayalon (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

448 Seiten

2001
Altamira Press (Verlag)
978-0-7591-0087-9 (ISBN)

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Written by a distinguished group of feminist archaeologists, In Pursuit of Gender examines the role of gender in archaeology, an area that has long been neglected. The chapters in this volume represent sites and cultures that have been interpreted or reinterpreted from the perspective of gender, exploding old assumptions about women and the roles they held. Greatly illuminating the subject of gender from the perspective of their own regional traditions, the authors take the reader through an authoritative and comprehensive discussion of gender archaeology in Asia, Africa, North and South America. Societies represented include hunter-gatherers, early horticulturalists, incipient and well-developed states, historic communities, as well as ethnoarchaeological explorations. The chapters are characterised by a greater specificity in methods, and the emergence of a social archaeology that considers the agency of both men and women. In Pursuit of Gender advances the study of gender in archaeology with detailed data, a world-wide scope and carefully reasoned conclusions that move into new territory, paving the way towards further research in gender-based theory.

Sarah Milledge Nelson is John Evans Professor of Archaeology at the University of Denver, where she is faculty in the Anthropology Department and Director of Asian Studies. Some recent books include The Archaeology of Korea (1993), The Archaeology of Northeast China (ed.)(1995), and Gender in Archaeology (1997) which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. Myriam Rosen-Ayalon is Mayer Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.2.2002
Reihe/Serie	Gender and Archaeology
Verlagsort	California
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 228 mm
Gewicht	689 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7591-0087-X / 075910087X
ISBN-13	978-0-7591-0087-9 / 9780759100879
Zustand	Neuware