Archaeology and Women: Ancient and Modern Issues

by Hamilton,Sue; Hamilton,Sue

• ISBN13: 9781598742237
• ISBN10: 159874223X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section of this collection of original articles addresses the historical and contemporary roles of women in the discipline. Another attempts to link contemporary archaeological theory and practice to work on women and gender in other fields. Finally, this volume presents a wide diversity of theoretical approaches and methods of study of women in the ancient world, representing a cross section of work being carried out today under the broad banner of gender archaeology. The geographical and chronological range of the contributions is also wide, from Southeast Asia and South America to Western Asia, Egypt and Europe, from Great Britain to Greece, and from 10,000 years ago to the recent past. An ideal sampler for courses dealing with women and archaeology.

Table of Contents

The study of gender and women in archaeology	p. 25
Gender archaeology and archaeology of women : do we need both?	p. 27
On gender negotiation and its materiality	p. 41
Women in archaeology	p. 53
Winifred Lamb : her first year as a student at the British school at Athens	p. 55
Pioneers in Palestine : the women excavators of El-Wad Cave, 1929	p. 76
Marija Gimbutas : setting the agenda	p. 83
Women in practice : women in British contract field archaeology	p. 121
Genderin' experimental archaeology	p. 147
Warriors and weavers : constructing British Iron Age identities in museums	p. 167
Women in antiquity	p. 183
Bones of work at the origins of labour	p. 185
Women and the emergence of urban society in mesopotamia	p. 199
Women of Lahun (Egypt 1800 B.C.)	p. 246
Figurines without sex : people without gender?	p. 263
Anklets and the social construction of gender and age in the late Bronze and early Iron Age Southern Levant	p. 283
Expressing gender in Bronze Age North East Thailand : the case of Non Nok Tha	p. 312
Stirring women, weapons and weaving : aspects of gender identity and symbols of power in early Anglo-Saxon England	p. 335
Gender and archaeological site formation : ethnoarchaeological studies in parts of Nigeria	p. 353
Painted genders : the construction of gender roles through the display of body painting by the Selk'narn and the Yamana from Tierra Del Fuego (Southern South America)	p. 373
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