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: 9780761989684
• ISBN10: 0761989684
• Format: Paperback
• 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
Gender and Prehistory in Africa	p. 9
Resolving the Past: Gender in the Stone Age Archaeological Record of the Western Cape	p. 25
Invisible Gender - Invisible Foragers: Southern African Hunter-Gatherer Spatial Patterning and the Archaeological Record	p. 39
The Invisible Meat Providers: Women in the Stone Age of South Africa	p. 69
Just a Formality: The Presence of Fancy Projectile Points in a Basic Tool Assemblage	p. 83
Social Variability Among Holocene Saharan Groups: How to Recognize Gender	p. 105
Gender and Early Pastoralists in East Africa	p. 115
Reading Gender in the Ancient Iron Technology of Africa	p. 139
Gendered Technologies and Gendered Activities in the Interlacustrine Early Iron Age	p. 163
Engendered Spaces Bodily Practices in the Iron Age of Southern African	p. 179
Men and Women in a Market Economy: Gender and Craft Production in West Central Ghana c. 1775-1995	p. 205
Daughters of Cattle: The Significance of Herding in the Growth of Complex Societies in Southern Africa Between the 10th and 15th Centuries AD	p. 227
A Consideration of Gender Relations in the Late Iron Age "Sotho" Sequence of the Western Highveld, South Africa	p. 235
Toward an Archaeology of Gender in Africa	p. 261
Views of Gender in African Prehistory from a Middle Eastern Perspective	p. 279
Reflections on Gender Studies in African and Asian Archaeology	p. 285
Bibliography	p. 295
About the Authors	p. 343
Index	p. 349
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