Gender and the Archaeology of Death
Burials are places where archaeologists reasonably expect gendered ideologies and practices to play out in the archaeological record. Yet only modest progress has been made in teasing out gender from these mortuary contexts. In this volume, methods for doing so are presented, cases of successful gender theorizing from mortuary data presented, and comparisons made between European and Americanist traditions in this kind of work. Cases are broad in temporal and geographic scope—from Inuit...
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Edited volume on what archaeological mortuary analysis can tell researchers about gender relations in the ancient world. Booknews 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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Introduction1Killing the Female? Archaeological Narratives of Infanticide12Life, Death, and the Longhouse: A Gendered View of Oneota Social Organization233Gender Studies in Chinese Neolithic Archaeology514Visible Women Made Invisible: Interpreting Varangian Women in Old Russia655The Position of Iron Age Scandinavian Women: Evidence from Graves and Rune Stones816Gender and Mortuary Analysis: What Can Grave Goods Really Tell Us?1057Sharing the Load: Gender and Task Division at the Windover Site1198Grave Goods Do Not a Gender Make: A Case Study from Singen am Hohentwiel, Germany1379Decoding the Gender Bias: Inferences of Atlatls in Female Mortuary Contexts15910Warfare and Gender in the Northern Plains: Osteological Evidence of Trauma Reconsidered179Index195About the Contributors201
\ AntiquityDrs Arnold & Wicker present 10 substantial studies on mortuary analysis, social power, 'ambiguity of signification,' and war.... They are interesting and useful, either as case studies or as methodological disquisitions.\ — N. James\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsAnthropologist, 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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
