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Women in prehistory : North America and Mesoamerica
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- Creator
- edited by Cheryl Claassen and Rosemary A. Joyce
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1997]
- ©1997
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780812233810, 0812233816, 9780812216028, 0812216024
- OCLC
- ocm35192338
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-289) and index.
- 1. Women in the Ancient Americas: Archaeologists, Gender, and the Making of Prehistory / Rosemary A. Joyce and Cheryl Claassen -- 2. Woman the Hunter: Ethnoarchaeological Lessons from Chipewyan Life-Cycle Dynamics / Hetty Jo Brumbach and Robert Jarvenpa -- 3. Women's Work, Women's Space, and Women's Status Among the Classic-Period Maya Elite of the Copan Valley, Honduras / Julia A. Hendon -- 4. Where Have All the Menstrual Huts Gone? The Invisibility of Menstrual Seclusion in the Late Prehistoric Southeast / Patricia Galloway -- 5. Changing Venue: Women's Lives in Prehistoric North America / Cheryl Claassen -- 6. Warfare, Women, and Households: The Development of Iroquois Culture / Susan C. Prezzano -- 7. Changes in Regional Exchange Relationships During the Pithouse-to-Pueblo Transition in the American Southwest: Implications for Gender Roles / Alison E. Rautman -- 8. Gender, Diet, Health, and Social Status in the Mississippian Powers Phase Turner Cemetery Population / Diane Wilson -- 9. The Archaeology of Maize, Pots, and Seashells: Gender Dynamics in Late Woodland and Contact-Period New England / Mary Beth Williams and Jeffrey Bendremer -- 10. Weaving and the Iconography of Prestige: The Royal Gender Symbolism of Lord 5 Flower's/Lady 4 Rabbit's Family / Byron Hamann -- 11. The Third Gender in Native California: Two-Spirit Undertakers Among the Chumash and Their Neighbors / Sandra E. Hollimon -- 12. Gendered Goods: The Symbolism of Maya Hierarchical Exchange Relations / Susan D. Gillespie and Rosemary A. Joyce -- 13. Earth Mothers, Warriors, Horticulturists, Artists, and Chiefs: Women Among the Mississippian and Mississippian-Oneota Peoples, A.D. 1211 to 1750 / Lyle Koehler -- 14. Figurines and Social Identities in Early Sedentary Societies of Coastal Chiapas, Mexico, 1550-800 b.c / Richard G. Lesure
Subjects
- Indian women -- North America -- Economic conditions.
- Indian women -- Mexico -- Economic conditions.
- Indian women -- Material culture -- North America.
- Indian women -- Material culture -- Mexico.
- Economics, Prehistoric -- North America.
- Economics, Prehistoric -- Mexico.
- Subsistence economy -- North America.
- Subsistence economy -- Mexico.
- Feminist archaeology -- North America.
- Feminist archaeology -- Mexico.
- North America -- Antiquities.
- Mexico -- Antiquities.