A Companion to Gender Prehistory

Herausgegeben von Bolger, Diane

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An authoritative guide on gender prehistory for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, archaeology, and gender studies

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

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1202g
• ISBN-13: 9780470655368
• ISBN-10: 0470655364
• Artikelnr.: 36026062

Autorenporträt

Diane Bolger is a Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In addition to her research on gender, she specializes in the ceramics of early agricultural societies in the ancient Near East, particularly in Cyprus, where she has been involved in fieldwork since the early 1980s. Her major publications on gender include three books: Gender in Ancient Cyprus (2003), Engendering Aphrodite: Women and Society in Ancient Cyprus (2002), and Gender through Time in the Ancient Near East (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations x List of Tables xiii Notes on Contributors xiv
Acknowledgments xxii Introduction: Gender Prehistory - The Story So Far 1
Diane Bolger Part I Thematic Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 21 Section 1
Current Themes and Debates 21 1 Engendering Human Evolution 23 Adrienne
Zihlman 2 Gender, Complexity, and Power in Prehistory 45 Scott R. Hutson,
Bryan K. Hanks, and K. Anne Pyburn 3 Archaeology of Embodied Subjectivities
68 Teresa Dujnic Bulger and Rosemary A. Joyce 4 Queer Prehistory: Bodies,
Performativity, and Matter 86 Benjamin Alberti 5 The Future of Gender in
Prehistoric Archaeology 108 Margaret W. Conkey Section 2 Gender and
Prehistoric Material Culture 121 6 Gender and Prehistoric Rock Art 122
Kelley Hays-Gilpin 7 Gender and Lithic Studies in Prehistoric Archaeology
142 Nyree Finlay 8 Gender, Labor, and Pottery Production in Prehistory 161
Diane Bolger 9 Gender and Textile Production in Prehistory 180 Cathy Lynne
Costin Section 3 Gendered Bodies and Identities in Prehistory 203 10
Personhood in Prehistory: A Feminist Archaeology in Ten Persons 204 Yvonne
Marshall 11 Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Gendered Body 226 Joanna
Sofaer 12 Figurines, Corporeality, and the Origins of the Gendered Body 244
Douglass W. Bailey 13 Goddesses in Prehistory 265 Lucy Goodison and
Christine Morris Part II Regional Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 289
Section 4 Gender Prehistory in Africa and Asia 289 14 Gender in North
African Prehistory 291 Barbara E. Barich 15 Gender in the Prehistory of
Sub-Saharan Africa 313 Lyn Wadley 16 Gender and Archaeology in Coastal East
Asia 333 Sarah Milledge Nelson 17 Gender Archaeology in East Asia and
Eurasia 351 Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson 18 Gender in
Southwest Asian Prehistory 372 Diane Bolger and Rita P. Wright Section 5
Gender in European Prehistory 395 19 The History of Gender Archaeology in
Northern Europe 396 Marie Louise Stig Sørensen 20 Gender in Eastern
European Prehistory 413 John Chapman and Nona Palincaº 21 Gender and
Feminism in the Prehistoric Archaeology of Southwest Europe 438 Margarita
Díaz-Andreu and Sandra Montón-Subías 22 Gender in British Prehistory 458
Benjamin Edwards and Rachel Pope 23 Gender in Central Mediterranean
Prehistory 480 Ruth Whitehouse 24 Gender in Greek and Aegean Prehistory 502
Louise Hitchcock and Marianna Nikolaidou Section 6 Gender Prehistory in the
Americas and the South Pacific 526 25 Gender in the Prehistory of the
Eastern United States 527 Cheryl Claassen 26 The Archaeology of Gender in
Western North America 544 Alice Beck Kehoe 27 The Archaeology of Gender in
Mesoamerica: Moving Beyond Gender Complementarity 564 Elizabeth M. Brumfiel
28 Gender in South American Prehistory 585 Melissa A. Vogel and Robyn E.
Cutright 29 Gender and Archaeology in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the
South Pacific 608 Cherrie De Leiuen Index 628

Rezensionen

"In short, as this volume shows us, there is no doubt that the gender perspective has been the strongest theoretical and methodological stimulus for the study of prehistory during the last decades. Adopting such a perspective provides a much more complex panorama of prehistoric societies than that which has been described to date. Such a panorama is, in turn, infinitely more stimulating." (European Journal of Archaeology, 1 March 2014)

"Part 2's strength is its global breadth, with most contributors offering a synthesized and regionally bounded historiography of gender studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 July 2013)