Gender and the Archaeology of Death

Bettina Arnold (Anthology Editor) , Nancy L. Wicker (Anthology Editor)

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Gender and the Archaeology of Death

Bettina Arnold (Anthology Editor) , Nancy L. Wicker (Anthology Editor)

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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 burials in Alaska and Oneota mortuary rituals to Viking Scandinavia, Neolithic China and Iron Age Britain. Methods for identifying and analyzing gender are suggested for cultures at various levels of social complexity with or without documentary or ethnoarchaeological evidence to assist in the analysis. A volume of great interest for those attempting to develop an archaeology of gender. Visit Bettina Arnold's web page

Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 Gender Ideology and Mortuary Analysis
Chapter 3 1. Killing the Female? Archaeological Narratives of Infanticide
Chapter 4 2. Life, Death, and the Longhouse: A Gendered View of Oneota Social Organization
Chapter 5 3. Gender Studies in Chinese Neolithic Archaeology
Part 6 Gender and Power
Chapter 7 4. Visible Women Made Invisible: Interpreting Varangian Women in Old Russia
Chapter 8 5. The Position of Iron Age Scandinavian Women: Evidence from Graves and Rune Stones
Part 9 Gender Roles and the Ambiguity of Signification
Chapter 10 6. Gender and Mortuary Analysis: What Can Grave Goods Really Tell Us?
Chapter 11 7. Sharing the Load: Gender and Task Division at the Windover Site
Chapter 12 8. Grave Goods Do Not a Gender Make: A Case Study from Singen am Hohentwiel, Germany
Part 13 Weapons, Women, Warriors
Chapter 14 9. Decoding the Gender Bias: Inferences of Atlatls in Female Mortuary Contexts
Chapter 15 10. Warfare and Gender in the Northern Plains: Osteological Evidence of Trauma Reconsidered

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Published	26 Jun 2001
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	232
ISBN	9780759117037
Imprint	AltaMira Press
Series	Gender and Archaeology
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Bettina Arnold

Anthology Editor

Nancy L. Wicker

The book provides a much needed compendium of theoretical and methodological examples of engendered approaches to mortuary analysis...succeeds in bringing together several excellent papers that re-examine and test interpretive assumptions regarding gender and mortuary remains...valuable to those interested in the archeology of gender.

Canadian Journal of Archaeology
The...papers [in Gender and the Archaeology of Death] lend unquestionable support to archaeology's role in illuminating women's lives and challenging conventional wisdom about the gendered division of labor...Bettina Arnold and Nancy Wicker have compiled a timely group of papers that encompasses many recent trends in the archaeology of gender. Beyond merely "finding women," the volume rides the waves of newer currents that depict women as diverse, as active, and as individuals with mutable identities.

Patricia E. Rubertone, Brown University, American Antiquity
Drs 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, Antiquity
Drs 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, Antiquity