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Title Gender transformations in prehistoric and archaic societies / edited by Julia Katharina Koch, Wiebke Kirleis.

Publication Info. Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (500 pages).
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Series Scales of Transformation ; 06
Scales of transformation in prehistoric and archaic societies ; 6.
Summary In which chronological, spatial, and social contexts is gender a relevant social category that is noticeable in the archaeological material? How can transformations in social gender relations and identity be recognized archaeologically? Is the identity of prehistoric people defined by gender? If so, what is the accompanying cultural context? What about gender equality among the scientists working in archaeology? In what degree are research teams, as well as their scientific approaches, biased today?00These and other questions are discussed in this volume, which comprises 25 contributions presented at the international workshop ?Gender Transformations in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies?, organised by the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 of Kiel University.0Beyond a focus on the archaeology of women, gender archaeology offers a variety of possibilities to reconstruct the contribution of social groups differentiated e.g. by age, gender, and activities related to cultural transformation, based on the archaeological material. Thus, this volume includes papers dealing with different socio-economic units, from south-western Europe to Central Asia, between 15,000 and 1 BCE, paying particular attention to the scale of social reach. Since gender archaeology, and in particular feminist archaeology, also addresses the issue of scientific objectivity or bias, parts of this volume are dedicated to equal opportunity matters in archaeological academia across the globe. This is realised by bringing together feminist and female experiences from a range of countries, each with its own specific individual, cultural, and social perspectives and traditions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 1. Gendering fieldwork, p.19 -- Matters of gender in the Kerameikos excavation in Athens, p.21 / Jutta Stroszeck -- Women in the field. Preliminary insights from images of archaeology in Portugal n the 1960s and the 1970s. A first essay, p.43 / Ana Cristina Martins -- Gendered and Diversified fieldwork classes in prehistoric archaelogy? An examination of and a perspective on Bachelor study programs of German universities, p.65 / Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann -- 'Fieldwork is not the proper preserve of a lady'. Gendered images of archaeologists from textbooks to social media, p.93 / Jana Esther Fries -- 2. Tracing gender transformations, p.109 -- 2.1. In methodology, p.109 -- What is gender transformation, where does it take place, and why? Reflections from archaeology, p.111 / Marie Louise Stig Sorensen -- Osteology defines sex and archaeology defines gender? Insights from physical anthropology, p.125 / Johanna Kranzbühler -- Gender in Linearbandkeramik research. Traditional approaches and new avenues, p.133 / Nils Müller-Scheecel -- 2.2. In burials, p.153 -- Changing gender perspection from the Mesolithic to the beginning of the Middle Neolithic, p.155 / Daniela Nordholz -- Making the invisible. Expressing gender in mortuary practices in north-eastern Hungary in the 5th milennium BCE, p.183 / Alexandra Anders and Emese Gyöngyver Nagy -- Copper Age transformations in gender identities. An Essay, p.205 / Jan Turek -- Gender symbolism in female graves of the Bronze Age evidenced by the materials from the Lisakovsk burial complex of the Andronova cultural horizon, p.221 / Emma R. Usmanova and Marina K. Lachkova -- Male gender identity during the Ural Bronze Age. On the way down?, p.241 / Natalia Berseneva -- Transformations in a woman's life in prehistoric and archaic societies of the Scythians and the Kalmyks, p.261 / Maria Ochir-Goryaeva -- Tracing gender in funerary data. The case study of elite graves in the North-Alpine complex (Late Bronze Age to La Tene B), p.275 / Caroline Tremeaud -- 2.3. In cultural landscapes, p.295 -- Social manipulation of gender identities in Early Iron Age Latium Vetus (Italy), p.297 / Ilona Venderbos -- Time- and space -related genders and changing social roles. A case study from Archaic southern Italy, p.315 / Christian Heitz -- 2.4. In ritual and art, p.339 -- 'Shaman' burials in prehistoric Europe. Gendered images?, p.341 / Nataliia Mykhailova -- Part-time females and full-time specialists? Identifying gender roles in ritual behaviour and archaeological remains, p.363 / Andy Reymann -- Beyond gender. Approaches to anthropomorphic imagery in prehistoric central Anatolia, p.381 / Aysel Arslan -- Art and gender. The case study of enamelling in continental Europe (4th-3rd century BCE), p.403 / Virginie Defente -- 3. Gendering and shaping the environment, p.417 -- Gender and the environment in archaeology. A discyssion, p.419 / Julia Katharina Koch and Oliver Nakoinz -- Gender division of labour during the proto-Elamite period in late 4th millenium BCE Iran. A case study from Tepe Sofalin in Iranian Central Plateau, p.423 / Rouhollah Yousefi Zoshik, Saeed Baghizadeh, and Donya Etemadifar -- Change and continuity. Gender and flint knapping activities during the Neollithic in the Paris basin, p.435 / Anne Augereau -- Labour organisation between horticulture and agriculture. Two separate worlds?, p.459 / Wiebke Kirleis -- Construction of space and gender in prehistory. An approach to the Chalcolithic walled enclosures of Iberia, p.477 / Ana M. Vale.
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Subject Prehistoric peoples.
Prehistoric peoples.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Excavations (Archaeology)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Koch, Julia Katharina, editor, author.
Kirleis, Wiebke, editor, author.
Other Form: Print version: Gender transformations in prehistoric and archaic societies. Leiden : Sidestone Press 2019 9789088908224 (OCoLC)1105597739
ISBN 9789088908231 electronic book
9088908230 electronic book
9789088908224
9088908222
9789088908217 (paperback)
9088908214 (paperback)