Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood A Comparative Ethnoarchaeology of Gender and Subsistence / edited by Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brumbach, Hetty Jo, 1943-

Jarvenpa, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnoarchaeology--Polar regions.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Sexual division of labor--Polar regions.

Sexual division of labor.

Subsistence economy--Polar regions.

Subsistence economy.

Traditional fishing--Polar regions.

Traditional fishing.

Hunting and gathering societies--Polar regions.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Arctic peoples--Economic conditions.

Arctic peoples.

Arctic peoples--Social conditions.

Polar regions--Antiquities.

Polar regions.

Polar regions--Social conditions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 330 p. ) ill., maps ;

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood is a cross-cultural ethnoarchaeological study of the gendered nature of subsistence in northern hunter-gatherer-fisher societies. Based on field studies of four circumpolar societies, it documents the complexities of women's and men's involvement in food procurement, processing, and storage, and the relationship of such behaviors to the built landscape. Avoiding simplistic stereotypes of male and female roles, the framework of "gendered landscapes" reveals the variability and flexibility of women's and men's actual lives in a manner useful for archaeological interpretations of hunter-foragers. Innovative in scope and design, this is the first study to employ a controlled, four-way, cross-cultural comparison of gender and subsistence. Members of an international team of anthropologists experienced in northern scholarship apply the same task-differentiation methodology in studies of Chipewyan hunter-fishers of Canada, Khanty hunter-fisher-herders of Western Siberia, Sámi intensive reindeer herders of northwestern Finland, and Iñupiaq maritime hunters of the Bering Strait of Alaska. This database on gender and subsistence is used to reassess one of the bedrock concepts in anthropology and social science: the sexual division of labor.

Contents:

Introduction: Gender, subsistence, and ethnoarchaeology / Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach

Chipewyan society and gender relations / Hetty Jo Brumbach and Robert Jarvenpa

Chipewyan hunters : a task differentiation analysis / Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach

Khanty society and gender relations / Elena Glavatskaya

Khanty hunter-fisher-herders : a task differentiation analysis of Trom'agan women's and men's subsistence activities / Elena Glavatskaya

Sámi society and gender relations / Jukka Pennanen

Sámi reindeer herders : a task differentiation analysis / Jukka Pennanen

Iñupiaq society and gender relations / Carol Zane Jolles

Iñupiaq maritime hunters : summer subsistence work in Diomede / Carol Zane Jolles

Conclusion: Toward a comparative ethnoarchaeology of gender / Hetty Jo Brumbach and Robert Jarvenpa.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610510504

9781280510502

1280510501

9780803252929

0803252927

OCLC:

63674080