Gender Through Time in the Ancient Near East

by Bolger, Diane; Campbell, Stuart; Croucher, Karina; Daems, Aurelie; Asher-Greve, Julia; Lorentz, Kirsi; McCaffrey, Kathleen; Nelson, Sarah Milledge; Serwint, Nancy; Wright, Rita P.

• ISBN13: 9780759110922
• ISBN10: 0759110921
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-16
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Although the ancient Near East has been studied by anthropologists, archaeologists, philologists, and historians, no single work has explored issues of gender and social identity across the broad temporal and geographical range of Near Eastern civilizations. Gender Through Time in the Ancient Near East thus makes a unique contribution to gender studies. The volume's contributors--an international group of experts from Near Easern, European and American institutions--look at the archaeological and other evidence to find out how gender roles were constructed in these ancient worlds and what they meant to the men and women who assumed them.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Introduction: Temporal Dimensions of Gender in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology	p. 1
Ambiguous Genders? Alternative Interpretations: A Discussion of Case Studies from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and Halaf Periods	p. 21
Feasting and Dancing: Gendered Representation and Pottery in Later Mesopotamian Prehistory	p. 53
Evaluating Patterns of Gender through Mesopotamian and Iranian Human Figurines: A Reassessment of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Period Industries	p. 77
Images of Men, Gender Regimes, and Social Stratification in the Late Uruk Period	p. 119
The Female Kings of Ur	p. 173
Complex Identities: Gender, Age, and Status in the Early Bronze Age of the Middle Euphrates Valley	p. 217
Gendered Relations and the Ur III Dynasty: Kinship, Property, and Labor	p. 247
From Life Course to longue duree: Headshaping as Gendered Capital?	p. 281
Gender in the Sanctuary: Votive Offerings and Deity at Ancient Marion	p. 313
Gendered Fields in Near Eastern Archaeology: Past, Present, Future	p. 335
Index	p. 361
About the Contributors	p. 371
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