Reading the body. Representations and Remains in the Archaelogical Record - RAUTMAN, Alison E. (ed.)

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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.
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