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Gender and Archaeology » (~)

Authors: Rita Wright
ISBN-13: 9780812215748, ISBN-10: 0812215745
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: October 1996
Edition: ~

Author Biography: Rita Wright

Rita P. Wright is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University.

Book Synopsis

Gender and Archaeology challenges archaeologists to draw on wider feminist discourses in their interpretations of past societies—and also challenges feminist scholars in other disciplines to consider new engendered approaches to archaeology.

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Preface
	Introduction: Gendered Ways of Knowing in Archaeology	1
1	How Did Prehistoric Women Bear "Man the Hunter"? Reconstructing Fertility from the Archaeological Record	23
2	Reconceiving Technology: Why Feminine Technologies Matter	52
3	Technology, Gender, and Class: Worlds of Difference in Ur III Mesopotamia	79
4	Exploring the Relationship Between Gender and Craft in Complex Societies: Methodological and Theoretical Issues of Gender Attribution	111
5	Figurines and the Aztec State: Testing the Effectiveness of Ideological Domination	143
6	The Construction of Gender in Classic Maya Monuments	167
7	Gendered Perspectives in the Classroom	199
8	Cultivating Thinking/Challenging Authority: Some Experiments in Feminist Pedagogy in Archaeology	224
9	Archaeological Practice and Gendered Encounters with Field Data	251
	List of Contributors	281
	Author Index	285
	Subject Index	291