Archaeology and women : ancient and modern issues / Sue Hamilton, Ruth D. Whitehouse, Katherine I. Wright, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamilton, Sue, 1954-

Whitehouse, Ruth

Wright, Katherine I.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology.

Sex role--History.

Sex role.

History.

Feminist archaeology.

Women, Prehistoric.

Physical Description:

415 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2007]

Summary:

Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section of this collection of original articles addresses the historical and contemporary roles of women in the discipline. Another attempts to link contemporary archaeological theory and practice to work on women and gender in other fields. Finally, this volume presents a wide diversity of theoretical approaches and methods of study of women in the ancient world, representing a cross section of work being carried out today under the broad banner of gender archaeology. The geographical and chronological range of the contributions is also wide, from Southeast Asia and South America to Western Asia, Egypt and Europe, from Great Britain to Greece, and from 10,000 years ago to the recent past. An ideal sampler for courses dealing with women and archaeology.

Contents:

pt. 1. The study of gender and women in archaeology

Gender archaeology and archaeology of women : do we need both? / Ruth D. Whitehouse

On gender negotiation and its materiality / Marie Louise Stig Sørensen

pt. 2. Women in archaeology

Winifred Lamb : her first year as a student at the British School at Athens / David W.J. Gill

Pioneers in Palestine : the women excavators of El-Wad Cave, 1929 / Jane Callander and Pamela Jane Smith

Marija Gimbutas : setting the agenda / Ernestine S. Elster

Women in practice : women in British contract field archaeology / Sue Hamilton

Genderin' experimental archaeology / Steve Townend

Warriors and weavers : constructing Iron Age identities in museums / Sue Ballard

pt. 3. Women in antiquity

Bones of work at the origins of labour / Theya Molleson

Women and the emergence of urban society in Mesopotamia / Katherine I. Wright

Women of Lahun (Egypt 1800 BC) / Stephen Quirke

Figurines without sex : people without gender? / Maria Mina

Anklets and the social construction of gender and age in the late Bronze and early Iron Age Southern Levant / John D.M. Green

Expressing gender in Bronze Age North East Thailand : the case of Non Nok Tha / Elisabeth A. Bacus

Stirring women, weapons and weaving : aspects of gender identity and symbols of power in early Anglo-Saxon England / Sue Harrington

Gender and archaeological site formation : ethnoarchaeological studies in parts of Nigeria / C.A. Folorunso

Painted genders : the construction of gender roles through the display of body painting by the Selk'nam and the Yámana from Tierra Del Fuego (Southern South America) / Dánae Fiore.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781598742237

159874223X

9781598742244

1598742248

OCLC:

74987622