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Reading the body : representations and remains in the archaeological record
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Reading the body : representations and remains in the archaeological record

Author: Alison E Rautman
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2000.
Series: Regendering the past.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Reading the Body contains current anthropological and archaeological research about the body and the archaeological record - both physical remains and artistic representations from sites all over the world ranging in time from the European Upper Paleolithic to the Pueblo societies of the recent past. Essay topics include the reconstruction of the lives of Etruscan women from skeletal remains, gender symbolism in  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Reading the body.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2000
(OCoLC)649951639
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alison E Rautman
ISBN: 0812235215 9780812235210 0812217098 9780812217094
OCLC Number: 41662474
Notes: Papers from the 4th Gender and Archaeology Conference, held on Oct. 1996 at Michigan State University.
Description: viii, 283 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction : diverse approaches to the study of gender in archaeology --
Writing the body in archaeology --
Sex, health, and gender roles among the Arikara of the Northern Plains --
Labor patterns in the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age --
Reconstructing the lives of South Etruscan women --
Gender in Inuit burial practices --
The status of women in predynastic Egypt as revealed through mortuary analysis --
The human form in the Late Bronze Age Aegean --
Deciphering gender in Minoan dress --
Fear and gender in Greek art --
Mississippian weavers --
Prehistoric and ethnographic Pueblo gender roles : continuity of lifeways from the eleventh to the early twentieth century --
And they said, let us make gods in our image : gendered ideologies in ancient Mesopotamia --
Beyond Mother Earth and Father Sky : ancient Egyptian beliefs about conception and fertility --
Female figurines in the European Upper Paleolithic : politics and bias in archaeological interpretation.
Series Title: Regendering the past.
Responsibility: edited by Alison E. Rautman.

Abstract:

"Reading the Body contains current anthropological and archaeological research about the body and the archaeological record - both physical remains and artistic representations from sites all over the world ranging in time from the European Upper Paleolithic to the Pueblo societies of the recent past. Essay topics include the reconstruction of the lives of Etruscan women from skeletal remains, gender symbolism in Inuit burials, the erotic clothing of Crete's Minoan culture, and gender identities in Maya ceramic paintings."--BOOK JACKET.

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