Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige / Edition 1

by Patricia L. Crown

Overview

Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest takes a groundbreaking look at gendered activities in prehistory and the differential access that women and men had to sources and symbols of power and prestige. The authors-including some of the most prominent archaeologists working in the Southwest today-present invaluable methodological and theoretical case studies that take a great step forward in researchers' ability to "read" gender in the evidence left behind by ancient societies. Archaeological interpretation is enhanced and critiqued in a summary discussion by a prominent Southwestern ethnologist and feminist anthropologist.

The authors' probe the time period during which Southwestern populations shifted from migratory gatherer-hunters to sedentary agriculturalists and from living in small bands to settling in large aggregated communities. The chapters address the organization of space; ritual activities; mortuary goods and burial facilities; food gathering and agricultural production; hunting and domesticated animals; food processing and preparation; health, nutrition, disease, and violence; craft production; and exchange and interaction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780933452176
Publisher:	School for Advanced Research Press
Publication date:	04/01/2001
Series:	School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)