Gender violence in the American Southwest (AD 1100-1300) : mothers, sisters, wives, slaves / Debra L. Martin and Claira E. Ralston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Debra L., author.

Ralston, Claira E., author.

Series:

Bodies and Lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology).

Antiquities.

Indian women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

Culturally Specific Gender Violence at La Plata -- Conclusions -- References -- 4. Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Slaves: Complexities in Roles and Relations -- Ethnographic/Ethnohistoric Analogies for the Past -- Pueblo Social Organization: Status, Power, and Prestige -- Pueblo Gender Roles and Divisions of Labor -- Wives, Co-Wives, Sisters, and Daughters -- Mothers, Grandmothers, and Aunts -- Ceremonial Leaders and Keepers of Knowledge -- Captives and Slaves -- Complexities of Women as Captives and Slaves -- Captives as Agents of Social Change -- Summary and Conclusions -- References.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Table

Acknowledgments

1. Mindful Bodies

Introduction

Presenting and Studying Bodies

Why a Book on Gender Violence in the Past?

Violence among Women

Complexities of Sex and Gender

Life Course Theory

Intersectionality

Nonbinary Genders

Agency

Challenges to Decolonizing the Past

Mindful Bodies: Theoretical Framework

Summary

References

2. Portrait of a Desert Farming Community

Studying Other People's Bodies-Concerns and Caveats

Why a Small-Scale Society?

Bodies in Context: Environments, Cultural Processes, and Biology

Situating a Small-Scale Society in Time and Space: The Social and Political Climate in the AD 1100s

Environment of the Northern San Juan Region

Cultural Systems and Cultural Stress

Individual Physiology

Skeletal Indicators of Stress

Impact of Stress on the Population

La Plata: Cultural Diseases, Social Bodies

Gender Roles and Implications for Inequities

3. Everyday Life Matters: Social Violence at La Plata

Revisiting Violence the Past-Cautionary Notes

Why La Plata?

The Body Politic: Wounds to the Body and Power

Identifying and Interpreting the Skeletal Correlates of Violence

Captives as Disposable Commodities: The Evidence for Violence, Illness, Heavy Labor, and Early Death

Skeletal Trauma at La Plata

Skeletal Trauma at La Plata: Victims of Violence?

Evidence of Heavy Labor at La Plata

Mortuary Treatment at La Plata

Survivors of Violence: The Long-Term Effects of Cranial Trauma

Summary: Culturally Specific Gender Violence at La Plata

Conclusions

4. Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Slaves: Complexities in Roles and Relations.

Ethnographic/Ethnohistoric Analogies for the Past

Pueblo Social Organization: Status, Power, and Prestige

Pueblo Gender Roles and Divisions of Labor

Wives, Co-Wives, Sisters, and Daughters

Mothers, Grandmothers, and Aunts

Ceremonial Leaders and Keepers of Knowledge

Captives and Slaves

Complexities of Women as Captives and Slaves

Captives as Agents of Social Change

Summary and Conclusions

5. Capturing Women, Capturing Power

The Big Picture

Anthropological Approaches-Biocultural and Intersectional

Working through the Past

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-312352-X

1-003-12352-X

1-000-82120-X

9781003123521

OCLC:

1351196487