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Gender in Archaeology
Sarah Milledge Nelson
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Description for Gender in Archaeology
hardcover. Reflects the various changes in the study of gender and archaeology. This title covers issues such as sexuality studies, the body, children, and feminist pedagogy. It also covers the roles of women and men in such areas as human origins, the sexual division of labor, kinship and other social structures, state development, and ideology. Series: Gender and Archaeology. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HD; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
This new edition of the first comprehensive feminist, theoretical synthesis of the archaeological work on gender reflects the extensive changes in the study of gender and archaeology over the past 8 years. New issues—such as sexuality studies, the body, children, and feminist pedagogy—enrich this edition while the author updates work on the roles of women and men in such areas as human origins, the sexual division of labor, kinship and other social structures, state development, and ideology. Nelson provides examples from gender-specific archaeological studies worldwide to examine such traditional myths as woman the gatherer, the goddess hypothesis, and the Amazon ... Read more
This new edition of the first comprehensive feminist, theoretical synthesis of the archaeological work on gender reflects the extensive changes in the study of gender and archaeology over the past 8 years. New issues—such as sexuality studies, the body, children, and feminist pedagogy—enrich this edition while the author updates work on the roles of women and men in such areas as human origins, the sexual division of labor, kinship and other social structures, state development, and ideology. Nelson provides examples from gender-specific archaeological studies worldwide to examine such traditional myths as woman the gatherer, the goddess hypothesis, and the Amazon ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Gender and Archaeology
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
California, United States
ISBN
9780759104952
SKU
V9780759104952
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99-15
About Sarah Milledge Nelson
Sarah Milledge Nelson is John Evans Professor of Archaeology at the University of Denver, where she is faculty in the Anthropology Department and Director of Asian Studies. Some recent books include The Archaeology of Korea (1993), The Archaeology of Northeast China (ed.)(1995), Gender in Archaeology(1997) which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, and Ancient Queens: Archaeological Explorations (ed)(2003).
Reviews for Gender in Archaeology
One must applaud her efforts to redress wrongs in our own time, and to rebuild the past by peopling it with women as well as with men.
Journal of Field Archaeology
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