Reading the Body : Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record / Alison E. Rautman.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Rautman, Alison E., editor.

Conference Name:

Gender and Archaeology Conference (4th : 1996 : Michigan State University)

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Regendering the Past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Symbolic aspects.

Human body.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Sex differences--History.

Sex differences.

Sex role--History.

Sex role.

Social archaeology.

Women, Prehistoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 41 illus.

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Classical and anthropological archaeologists share many of the same interests and confront many of the same problems studying extinct cultures. Despite differences in background and training, scholars in these disciplines are all engaged in analyzing and interpreting the archaeological record. Traditionally, however, there have been few opportunities for classical archaeologists and anthropologists to discuss mutually beneficial perspectives in method and theory. The study of gender and its representations affords an opportunity for archaeologists and anthropologists to share information and increase our understanding of how people lived in the past. Reading the Body contains current anthropological and archaeological research about the body and the archaeological record-both physical remains and artistic representations-from sites all over the world ranging in time from the European Upper Paleolithic to the Pueblo societies of the recent past. Essay topics include the reconstruction of the lives of Etruscan women from skeletal remains, gender symbolism in Inuit burials, the erotic clothing of Crete's Minoan culture, and gender identities in Maya ceramic paintings.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

1. Introduction: Diverse Approaches to the Study of Gender in Archaeology / Rautman, Alison E. / Talalay, Lauren E.

2. Writing the Body in Archaeology / Meskell, Lynn M.

Part I. Reading the Body from Mortuary Remains

3. Sex, Health, and Gender Roles Among the Arikara of the Northern Plains / Hollimon, Sandra E.

4. Labor Patterns in the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age / Peterson, Jane D.

5. Reconstructing the Lives of South Etruscan Women / Becker, Marshall Joseph

6. Gender in Inuit Burial Practices / Crass, Barbara A.

7. The Status of Women in Predynastic Egypt as Revealed Through Mortuary Analysis / Savage, Stephen H.

Part II. Reading the Body from Representations of the Human Form

8. The Human Form in the Late Bronze Age Aegean / German, Senta C.

9. Deciphering Gender in Minoan Dress / Lee, Mireille M.

10. Fear and Gender in Greek Art / McNiven, Timothy J.

11. Mississippian Weavers / Kehoe, Alice B.

12. Prehistoric and Ethnographic Pueblo Gender Roles: Continuity of Lifeways from the Eleventh to the Early Twentieth Century / Shaffer, Brian S. / Gardner, Karen M. / Powell, Joseph F.

13. And They Said, Let Us Make Gods in Our Image: Gendered Ideologies in Ancient Mesopotamia / Pollock, Susan / Bernbeck, Reinhard

14. Beyond Mother Earth and Father Sky: Sex and Gender in Ancient Southwestern Visual Arts / Hays-Gilpin, Kelley

15. Father Earth, Mother Sky: Ancient Egyptian Beliefs About Conception and Fertility / Roth, Ann Macy

16. Female Figurines in the European Upper Paleolithic: Politics and Bias in Archaeological Interpretation / Beck, Margaret

References

Contributors

Index

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781512806830

1512806838

OCLC:

979634323