{"product_id":"a-companion-to-gender-prehistory-isbn-9780470655368","title":"A Companion to Gender Prehistory","description":"An authoritative guide on gender prehistory for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, archaeology, and gender studies\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of gender archaeology, with an exclusive focus on prehistory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers critical overviews of developments  in the archaeology of gender over the last 30 years, as well as assessments of current trends and prospects for future research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocuses on recent Third Wave approaches to the study of gender in early human societies, challenging heterosexist biases, and  investigating the interfaces between gender and  status, age,  cognition, social memory, performativity, the body, and sexuality\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures numerous regional and thematic topics authored by established specialists in the field,   with incisive coverage of gender research in prehistoric and protohistoric cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xxii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Gender Prehistory – The Story So Far 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDiane Bolger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Thematic Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 1 Current Themes and Debates 21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Engendering Human Evolution 23\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAdrienne Zihlman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Gender, Complexity, and Power in Prehistory 45\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eScott R. Hutson, Bryan K. Hanks, and K. Anne Pyburn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Archaeology of Embodied Subjectivities 68\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTeresa Dujnic Bulger and Rosemary A. Joyce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Queer Prehistory: Bodies, Performativity, and Matter 86\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBenjamin Alberti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Future of Gender in Prehistoric Archaeology 108\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMargaret W. Conkey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 2 Gender and Prehistoric Material Culture 121\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Gender and Prehistoric Rock Art 122\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKelley Hays-Gilpin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Gender and Lithic Studies in Prehistoric Archaeology 142\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNyree Finlay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Gender, Labor, and Pottery Production in Prehistory 161\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDiane Bolger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Gender and Textile Production in Prehistory 180\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCathy Lynne Costin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 3 Gendered Bodies and Identities in Prehistory 203\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Personhood in Prehistory: A Feminist Archaeology in Ten Persons 204\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eYvonne Marshall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Gendered Body 226\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoanna Sofaer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Figurines, Corporeality, and the Origins of the Gendered Body 244\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDouglass W. Bailey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Goddesses in Prehistory 265\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLucy Goodison and Christine Morris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Regional Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 289\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 4 Gender Prehistory in Africa and Asia 289\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e14 Gender in North African Prehistory 291\u003cbr\u003e Barbara E. Barich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Gender in the Prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa 313\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLyn Wadley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Gender and Archaeology in Coastal East Asia 333\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSarah Milledge Nelson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Gender Archaeology in East Asia and Eurasia 351\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKatheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Gender in Southwest Asian Prehistory 372\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDiane Bolger and Rita P. Wright\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 5 Gender in European Prehistory 395\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 The History of Gender Archaeology in Northern Europe 396\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarie Louise Stig Sørensen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Gender in Eastern European Prehistory 413\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Chapman and Nona Palincaº\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Gender and Feminism in the Prehistoric Archaeology of Southwest Europe 438\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMargarita Díaz-Andreu and Sandra Montón-Subías\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Gender in British Prehistory 458\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBenjamin Edwards and Rachel Pope\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Gender in Central Mediterranean Prehistory 480\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRuth Whitehouse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Gender in Greek and Aegean Prehistory 502\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLouise Hitchcock and Marianna Nikolaidou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 6 Gender Prehistory in the Americas and the South Pacific 526\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Gender in the Prehistory of the Eastern United States 527\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCheryl Claassen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 The Archaeology of Gender in Western North America 544\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlice Beck Kehoe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The Archaeology of Gender in Mesoamerica: Moving Beyond Gender Complementarity 564\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth M. Brumfiel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Gender in South American Prehistory 585\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMelissa A. Vogel and Robyn E. Cutright\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Gender and Archaeology in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the South Pacific 608\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCherrie De Leiuen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 628\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“In short, as this volume shows us, there is no doubt that the gender perspective has been the strongest theoretical and methodological stimulus for the study of prehistory during the last decades. Adopting such a perspective provides a much more complex panorama of prehistoric societies than that which has been described to date. Such a panorama is, in turn, infinitely more stimulating.”\u003ci\u003e  (European Journal of Archaeology\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 March 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Part 2's strength is its global breadth, with most contributors offering a synthesized and regionally bounded historiography of gender studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.”  (\u003ci\u003eChoice,\u003c\/i\u003e 1 July 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiane Bolger\u003c\/b\u003e is a Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In addition to her research on gender, she specializes in the ceramics of early agricultural societies in the ancient Near East, particularly in Cyprus, where she has been involved in fieldwork since the early 1980s. Her major publications on gender include three books: \u003ci\u003eGender in Ancient Cyprus\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eEngendering Aphrodite: Women and Society in Ancient Cyprus\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), and \u003ci\u003eGender through Time in the Ancient Near East\u003c\/i\u003e (2008).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe concept of fundamental, innate differences between males and females is a relatively recent phenomenon, the product of western Enlightenment thinking; yet the uncritical acceptance of sex and gender as natural and unchanging phenomena continues to shape much of the research in prehistoric archaeology today. \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Gender Prehistory\u003c\/i\u003e aims to correct this view by understanding gender as a complex social category, and charting its variability through time and space.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this wide-ranging overview of the field, organized thematically and geographically, top scholars offer up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of developments in the field over the past 30 years, challenging a number of false assumptions about sex and gender, and demonstrating how top-down thinking can skew interpretations of the past. Thematic chapters (Part I) address current areas of interest and debate in gender prehistory, including the interfaces between gender and human evolution, social complexity, prehistoric material culture, bodies and identities, human imagery, and sexuality. Regional chapters (Part II) offer gendered perspectives on archaeological research in particular areas of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and the South Pacific, and highlight key areas for future research.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith its critical wide-ranging approach to prehistoric archaeology examined through the lenses of gender and feminism, this \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e will serve as an authoritative guide to gender prehistory for researchers, instructors, and students in anthropology, archaeology, and gender studies.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“This enormous book contains it all: past studies, current theory, everyone on gender. I can’t wait to own a copy!”\u003cbr\u003e - \u003ci\u003eJoan Gero, American University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The publication of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Gender Prehistory\u003c\/i\u003e signals a new era in feminist and queer archaeology. With contributions from both established and emerging scholars throughout the world, this volume showcases the diversity and strengths of gender-focused archaeology in the study of the deep past. The authors stimulate our curiosity about the long history of gender and sexuality and chart new directions for emerging research.”\u003cbr\u003e - \u003ci\u003eBarbara L. 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