Gender in African Prehistory

by Kent, Susan; Parkington, John; Wadley, Lyn; Casey, Joanna; Barich, Barbara E.; Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane; Schmidt, Peter R.; MacLean, Rachel; Lane, Paul J.; Stahl, Ann B.; Cruz, M. Dores; Segobye, Alinah

• ISBN13: 9780761989677
• ISBN10: 0761989676
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-21
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Gender in African Prehistory provides methods and theories for delineating and discussing prehistoric gender relations and their change through time. Sites studied range from Egypt to South Africa and Ghana to Tanzania, while time periods span the Stone Age to the period just prior to colonialization.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Gender and Prehistory in Africa	9	(16)
Susan Kent
PERSPECTIVES OF GENDER FROM THE AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD	25	(236)
Chapter 2 Resolving the Past: Gender in the Stone Age Archaeological Record of the Western Cape	25	(14)
John Parkington
Chapter 3 Invisible Gender--Invisible Foragers: Southern African Hunter-Gatherer Spatial Patterning and the Archaeological Record	39	(30)
Susan Kent
Chapter 4 The Invisible Meat Providers: Women in the Stone Age of South Africa	69	(14)
Lyn Wadley
Chapter 5 Just a Formality: The Presence of Fancy Projectile Points in a Basic Tool Assemblage	83	(22)
Joanna Casey
Chapter 6 Social Variability Among Holocene Saharan Groups: How to Recognize Gender	105	(10)
Barbara Barich
Chapter 7 Gender and Early Pastoralists in East Africa	115	(24)
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
Chapter 8 Reading Gender in the Ancient Iron Technology of Africa	139	(24)
Peter Schmidt
Chapter 9 Gendered Technologies and Gendered Activities in the Interlacustrine Early Iron Age	163	(16)
Rachel MacLean
Chapter 10 Engendered Spaces Bodily Practices in the Iron Age of Southern African	179	(26)
Paul Lane
Chapter 11 Men and Women in a Market Economy: Gender and Craft Production in West Central Ghana c. 1775-1995	205	(22)
Ann B. Stahl
Maria das Dores Cruz
Chapter 12 Daughters of Cattle: The Significance of Herding in the Growth of Complex Societies in Southern Africa Between the 10th and 15th Centuries AD	227	(8)
Alinah Segobye
Chapter 13 A Consideration of Gender Relations in the Late Iron Age "Sotho" Sequence of the Western Highveld, South Africa	235	(26)
Simon Hall
COMMENTARIES AND PERSPECTIVES	261	(34)
Chapter 14 Toward an Archaeology of Gender in Africa	261	(18)
Fekri Hassan
Chapter 15 Views of Gender in African Prehistory from a Middle Eastern Perspective	279	(6)
Ofer Bar-Yosef
Anna Belfer-Cohen
Chapter 16 Reflections on Gender Studies in African and Asian Archaeology	285	(10)
Sarah Milledge Nelson
Bibliography	295	(48)
About the Authors	343	(6)
Index	349