Manifesting power. Gender and the interpretation of power in archaeology
Editorial ROUTLEDGE
Festland Spanien
- Verlag ROUTLEDGE
- ISBN13 9780415197441
- ISBN10 0415197449
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 210
- Jahr der Ausgabe 1999
- Bindung Gebunden
Manifesting power. Gender and the interpretation of power in archaeology
Editorial ROUTLEDGE
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Manifesting Power confronts the relationship between gender and power within prehistoric and historic societies. It addresses the extent to which our reconceptions of the nature of power, and of relations between the sexes, are rooted in our own experience of
western society, and argues that both conditions and perceptions may have been quite different among peoples of the past.
This collection includes nine innovative chapters which draw on data from a range of periods and areas. By looking at the evidence for gender distinctions
both from archaeological sites and from ethnographic observation, the contributors explore what these distinctions can reveal about power relationships in general. They argue that the evidence often does not point to the existence of hierarchical gender relationships, and explore the
forms of power available to women among the Maya and Aztec, and in prehistoric Denmark, Alaska, and the southeastern United States.