Gender and the archaeology of death / [edited by] Bettina Arnold and Nancy L. Wicker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arnold, Bettina.

Wicker, Nancy L.

Series:

Gender and archaeology series ; v. 2.

Gender and archaeology series ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology.

Sex role--History.

Sex role.

History.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--History.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Death--Social aspects--History.

Death.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Ethnoarchaeology.

Feminist archaeology.

Women, Prehistoric.

Death--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xxi, 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek [Calif.] : AltaMira Press, [2001]

Contents:

Killing the female? Archaeological narratives of infanticide / Eleanor Scott

Life, death, and the longhouse: a gendered view of Oneota social organization / Jodie A. O'Gorman

Gender studies in Chinese Neolithic archaeology / Tianlong Jiao

Visible women made invisible: interpreting Varangian women in old Russia / Anne Stalsberg

The position of Iron Age Scandinavian women: evidence from graves and rune stones / Anne-Sofie Gräslund

Gender and mortuary analysis: what can grave goods really tell us? / Barbara A. Crass

Sharing the load: gender and task division at the Windover Site / Christine Hamlin

Grave goods do not a gender make: a case study from Singen am Hohentwiel, Germany / Emily Weglian

Decoding the gender bias: inferences of atlatls in female mortuary contexts / Dianna L. Doucette

Warfare and gender in the Northern Plains: osteological evidence of trauma reconsidered / Sandra E. Hollimon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0759101361

075910137X

OCLC:

45861717