Engendering: Households in the Prehistoric Southwest - Couverture rigide

The University Of Arizona Press

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0816528160 ISBN 13 : 9780816528165

Editeur : University of Arizona Press, 2010

Synopsis

The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once described a village as "deserted" when all the adult males had vanished. While his statement is from the first half of the twentieth century, it nonetheless illustrates an oversight that has persisted during most of the intervening decades.

Now Southwestern archaeologists have begun to delve into the task of "engendering" their sites. Using a "close to the ground" approach, the contributors to this book seek to engender the prehistoric Southwest by examining evidence at the household level.

Focusing on gendered activities in household contexts throughout the southwestern United States, this book represents groundbreaking work in this area. The contributors view households as a crucial link to past activities and behavior, and by engendering these households, we can gain a better understanding of their role in prehistoric society. Gender-structured household activities, in turn, can offer insight into broader-scale social and economic factors. The chapters offer a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to engendering households and examine topics such as the division of labor, gender relations, household ritual, ceramic and ground stone production and exchange, and migration.

Engendering Households in the Prehistoric Southwest ultimately addresses broader issues of interest to many archaeologists today, including households and their various forms, identity and social boundary formation, technological style, and human agency. Focusing on gendered activities in household contexts throughout the southwestern United States, this book represents groundbreaking work in this area. The contributors view households as a crucial link to past activities and behavior, and by engendering these households, we can gain a better understanding of their role in prehistoric society. Gender-structured household activities, in turn, can offer insight into broader-scale social and economic factors.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara J. Roth is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Arizona Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816528160
• ISBN 13: 9780816528165
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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