UID:
almafu_9959233906202883
Format:
1 online resource (257 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-50914-6
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0-203-59890-3
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1-134-50915-4
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1-280-01942-5
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0-203-50118-7
Content:
Ungendering Civilization offers a much needed scrutiny of the role of women in the evolution of states. The contributors critically address traditional views of male and female roles; they argue for the possibility that the root historical cause of gender subordination is participation in modern world system, rather than 'innate' tendencies to domesticity and child-rearing in women, and leadership and aggression in men. Each of the nine papers examines a distinct body of archaeological data - from societies including Predynastic Egypt, Minoan Crete, ancient Zimbabwe and the Maya - to determi
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: Rethinking complex society; Gendered states: Gender and agency in economic models of Great Zimbabwe; The use and abuse of ethnographic analogies in interpretations of gender systems at Cahokia; The ~marauding pagan warrior~ woman; Tracing women in early Sumer; Leaders, healers, laborers, and lovers: Reinterpreting women's roles in Moche society; The benefits of an archaeology of gender for predynastic Egypt; All the Harappan men are naked, but the women are wearing jewelry
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Oh my goddess: A meditation on Minoan civilizationUngendering the Maya; Index;
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-26057-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-26058-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203501184
