A companion to gender prehistory / edited by Diane Bolger.

Date:
2013
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Gender prehistory

Description

"An authoritative guide on gender prehistory for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, archaeology, and gender studies. This book: Provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of gender archaeology, with an exclusive focus on prehistory ; Offers critical overviews of developments in the archaeology of gender over the last 30 years, as well as assessments of current trends and prospects for future research ; Focuses on recent Third Wave approaches to the study of gender in early human societies, challenging heterosexist biases, and investigating the interfaces between gender and status, age, cognition, social memory, performativity, the body, and sexuality ; Features numerous regional and thematic topics authored by established specialists in the field, with incisive coverage of gender research in prehistoric and protohistoric cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific."-- Publisher's website.

Publication/Creation

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Physical description

xxiii, 642 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I: Thematic Perspectives in Gender Prehistory. Current Themes and Debates ; Gender and Prehistoric Material Culture ; Gendered Bodies and Identities in Prehistory. -- Part II: Regional Perspectives in Gender Prehistory. Gender Prehistory in Africa and Asia ; Gender in European Prehistory ; Gender Prehistory in the Americas and the South Pacific.
Introduction : Gender prehistory - the story so far / Diane Bolger -- Part I: Thematic perspectives in gender prehistory -- Section 1. Current themes and debates -- 1. Engendering human evolution / Adrienne Zihlman -- 2. Gender, complexity, and power in prehistory / Scott R. Hutson, Bryan K. Hanks, and K. Anne Pyburn -- 3. Archaeology of embodied subjectivities / Teresa Dujnic Bulger and Rosemary A. Joyce -- 4. Queer prehistory : bodies, performativity, and matter / Benjamin Alberti -- 5. The future of gender in prehistoric archaeology / Margaret W. Conkey -- Section 2. Gender and prehistoric material culture -- 6. Gender and prehistoric rock art / Kelley Hays-Gilpin -- 7. Gender and lithic studies in prehistoric archaeology / Nyree Finlay -- 8. Gender, labor, and pottery production in prehistory / Diane Bolger -- 9. Gender and textile production in prehistory / Cathy Lynne Costin -- Section 3. Gendered bodies and identities in prehistory -- 10. Personhood in prehistory : a feminist archaeology in ten persons / Yvonne Marshall -- 11. Bioarchaeological approaches to the gendered body / Joanna Sofaer -- 12. Figurines, corporeality, and the origins of the gendered body / Douglass W. Bailey -- 13. Goddesses in prehistory / Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris. --
Part II : Regional perspectives in gender prehistory -- Section 4. Gender prehistory in Africa and Asia -- 14. Gender in North African prehistory / Barbara E. Barich -- 15. Gender in prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa / Lyn Wadley -- 16. Gender and archaeology in Costal East Asia / Sarah Milledge Nelson -- 17. Gender archaeology in East Asia and Eurasia / Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson -- 18. Gender in Southwest Asian prehistory / Diane Bolger and Rita P. Wright -- Section 5. Gender in European prehistory -- 19. The history of gender archaeology in Northern Europe / Marie Louise Stig Sørensen -- 20. Gender in Eastern European prehistory / John Chapman and Nona Palincaş -- 21. Gender and feminism in the prehistoric archaeology of Southwest Europe / Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Sandra Montón-Subías -- 22. Gender in British prehistory / Benjamin Edwards and Rachel Pope -- 23. Gender in Central Mediterranean prehistory / Ruth Whitehouse -- 24. Gender in Greek and Aegean prehistory / Louise Hitchcock and Marianna Nikolaidou -- Section 6. Gender prehistory in the Americas and the South Pacific -- 25. Gender in the prehistory of the Easter United States / Cheryl Claassen -- 26. The archaeology of gender in Western North America / Alice Beck Kehoe -- 27. The archaeology of gender in Mesoamerica : moving beyond gender complementarity / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel -- 28. Gender in South American prehistory / Melissa A. Vogel and Robyn E. Cutright -- 29. Gender and archaeology in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the South Pacific / Cherrie De Leiuen.

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  • 9780470655368
  • 0470655364