Title: |
Invisible people and processes: writing gender and childhood into European archaeology |
Number of Pages: |
274 |
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Publication Type: |
Monograph
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Abstract: |
A collection of papers arising out of two separate conferences held in 1993, namely `Women and children in the Neolithic' and a TAG session on `Ideologies of gender'. The most relevant contributions comprise: `Introduction: on the incompleteness of archaeological narratives' by Eleanor Scott (1--12); `A viable past in the pictorial present?' by Linda Hurcombe (15--24); `The power of gender archaeology' by Brian Boyd (25--30); `Re-engendering gender: some theoretical and methodological concerns on a burgeoning archaeological pursuit' by Kurtis S Lesick (31--41); `Ambivalent bodies: gender and medieval archaeology' by Roberta Gilchrist (42--58); `Hearth and home: the timing of maintenance activities' by Marina Picazo (59--67); `At home in the long Iron Age: a dialogue between households and individuals in cultural reproduction' by Alex Woolf (68--74); `Commentary: the gender screen' by Ian Hodder (75--8); `Skin scrapers and pottery makers? `Invisible' women in prehistory' by Lynne Bevan (81--7); `Housewives, warriors and slaves? Sex and gender in Anglo-Saxon burials' by S J Lucy (150--68); `Female into male won't go! Gender and early Christian asceticism' by Mary Harlow (169--77); `Commentary: writing gender' by Barbara Bender (178--80); `Invisibility as a symptom of gender categories in archaeology' by Mary Baker (183--91); `Engendering children, engendering archaeology' by Joanna Sofaer Derevenski (193--202); `Kid knapping: the missing children in lithic analysis' by Nyree Finlay (203--12); `Commentary: missing stages of life -- towards the perception of children in archaeology' by Andrew T Chamberlain (248--50); `Conclusion: the visibility of the invisible' by Jenny Moore (251--7). A glossary is provided to define certain terms as used in the context of this book. |
Author: |
Eleanor Scott
Jenny Moore
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Year of Publication: |
1997
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ISBN: |
0718500245 |
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Source: |
BIAB
(The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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Created Date: |
21 Jan 2002 |