Gender and the Archaeology of DeathBettina Arnold, Nancy L. Wicker Anthropologist, archaeologists, and art historians detail their approaches to studying gender in burial practices and in other mortuary contexts. They compare European and American traditions in this field, outline methods for analyzing gender in cultures of varying complexity and with different levels of documentation, and describe some of the successes of such efforts. Consideration is given to the relationships between gender, ideology, power, signification, and the interpretation of evidence. c. Book News Inc. |
Contents
Killing the Female? Archaeological Narratives of Infanticide | 3 |
Life Death and the Longhouse A Gendered View of Oneota Social Organization | 23 |
Gender Studies in Chinese Neolithic Archaeology | 51 |
Gender and Power | 63 |
Visible Women Made Invisible Interpreting Varangian Women in Old Russia | 65 |
The Position of Iron Age Scandinavian Women Evidence from Graves and Rune Stones | 81 |
Gender Roles and the Ambiguity of Signification | 103 |
Gender and Mortuary Analysis What Can Grave Goods Really Tell Us? | 105 |
Sharing the Load Gender and Task Division at the Windover Site | 119 |
Grave Goods Do Not a Gender Make A Case Study from Singen am Hohentwiel Germany | 137 |
Weapons Women Warriors | 157 |
Decoding the Gender Bias Inferences of Atlatls in Female Mortuary Contexts | 159 |
Warfare and Gender in the Northern Plains Osteological Evidence of Trauma Reconsidered | 179 |
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About the Contributors | 201 |
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