Gender transformations in prehistoric and archaic societies / edited by Julia Katharina Koch, Wiebke Kirleis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koch, Julia K., 1970- editor.

Kirleis, Wiebke, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Scales of transformation in prehistoric and archaic societies ; 6.

Scales of transformation in prehistoric and archaic societies ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist archaeology.

Social archaeology.

Prehistoric peoples.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

500 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, plans ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press [2019]

Summary:

"In which chronological, spatial, and social contexts is gender a relevant social category that is noticeable in the archaeological material? How can transformations in social gender relations and identity be recognized archaeologically? Is the identity of prehistoric people defined by gender? If so, what is the accompanying cultural context? What about gender equality among the scientists working in archaeology? In what degree are research teams, as well as their scientific approaches, biased today? These and other questions are discussed in this volume, which comprises 25 contributions presented at the international workshop 'Gender Transformations in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies,' organised by the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 of Kiel University. Beyond a focus on the archaeology of women, gender archaeology offers a variety of possibilities to reconstruct the contribution of social groups differentiated e.g. by age, gender, and activities related to cultural transformation, based on the archaeological material. Thus, this volume includes papers dealing with different socio-economic units, from south-western Europe to Central Asia, between 15,000 and 1 BCE, paying particular attention to the scale of social reach. Since gender archaeology, and in particular feminist archaeology, also addresses the issue of scientific objectivity or bias, parts of this volume are dedicated to equal opportunity matters in archaeological academia across the globe. This is realised by bringing together feminist and female experiences from a range of countries, each with its own specific individual, cultural, and social perspectives and traditions"--Back cover.

Contents:

Matters of gender in the Kerameikos excavation in Athens / Jutta Stroszeck

Women in the field. Preliminary insights from images of archaeology in Portugal n the 1960s and the 1970s. A first essay / Ana Cristina Martins

Gendered and Diversified fieldwork classes in prehistoric archaelogy? An examination of and a perspective on Bachelor study programs of German universities / Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann

'Fieldwork is not the proper preserve of a lady'. Gendered images of archaeologists from textbooks to social medi / Jana Esther Fries

What is gender transformation, where does it take place, and why? Reflections from archaeology / Marie Louise Stig Sorensen

Osteology defines sex and archaeology defines gender? Insights from physical anthropology / Johanna Kranzbühlered to cultural transformation, based on the archaeological material

Gender in Linearbandkeramik research. Traditional approaches and new avenues / Nils Müller-Scheecel

Changing gender perspection from the Mesolithic to the beginning of the Middle Neolithic / Daniela Nordholz

Making the invisible. Expressing gender in mortuary practices in north-eastern Hungary in the 5th milennium BCE / Alexandra Anders and Emese Gyöngyver Nagy

Copper Age transformations in gender identities. An Essay / Jan Turek

Gender symbolism in female graves of the Bronze Age evidenced by the materials from the Lisakovsk burial complex of the Andronova cultural horizon / Emma R. Usmanova and Marina K. Lachkova

Male gender identity during the Ural Bronze Age. On the way down? / Natalia Berseneva

Transformations in a woman's life in prehistoric and archaic societies of the Scythians and the Kalmyks / Maria Ochir-Goryaeva

Tracing gender in funerary data. The case study of elite graves in the North-Alpine complex (Late Bronze Age to La Tene B) / Caroline Tremeaud

Social manipulation of gender identities in Early Iron Age Latium Vetus (Italy) / Ilona Venderbos

Time- and space -related genders and changing social roles. A case study from Archaic southern Italy / Christian Heitz

'Shaman' burials in prehistoric Europe. Gendered images? / Nataliia Mykhailova

Part-time females and full-time specialists? Identifying gender roles in ritual behaviour and archaeological remains / Andy Reymann

Beyond gender. Approaches to anthropomorphic imagery in prehistoric central Anatolia / Aysel Arslan

Art and gender. The case study of enamelling in continental Europe (4th-3rd century BCE) / Virginie Defente

Gender and the environment in archaeology. A discussion / Julia Katharina Koch and Oliver Nakoinz

The gender division of labour during the proto-Elamite period in late 4th millenium BCE Iran. A case study from Tepe Sofalin in Iranian Central Plateau / Rouhollah Yousefi Zoshik, Saeed Baghizadeh, and Donya Etemadifar

Change and continuity. Gender and flint knapping activities during the Neollithic in the Paris basin / Anne Augereau

Labour organisation between horticulture and agriculture. Two separate worlds? / Wiebke Kirleis

The construction of space and gender in prehistory. An approach to the Chalcolithic walled enclosures of Iberia / Ana M. Vale.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Gender transformations in prehistoric and archaic societies.

ISBN:

9789088908224

9088908222

9789088908217

9088908214

OCLC:

1105597739

Publisher Number:

99983730901