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Companion to Gender Prehistory
Diane . Ed(S): Bolger
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Description for Companion to Gender Prehistory
A Companion to Gender Prehistory offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last few decades into an exploration of the gender dimension in behavior throughout our ancient past. Editor(s): Bolger, Diane. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 642 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: HDDA; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 179 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1176.
An authoritative guide on gender prehistory for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, archaeology, and gender studies
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
642
Condition
New
Series
Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
Number of Pages
672
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780470655368
SKU
V9780470655368
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99-15
About Diane . Ed(S): Bolger
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Companion to Gender Prehistory
“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 ... Read more