| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
A resort to subtler contrivances / Alice B. Kehoe -- Egalitarianism, equality, and equitable power / Susan Kent -- Women leaders in native North American societies: invisible women of power / Ruth Trocolli -- Gender, power, and heterarchy in middle-level societies / Janet E. Levy -- Writing on the face of the moon: women's products, archetypes, and power in ancient Maya civilization / Carolyn E. Tate -- The metamorphosis of Xochiquetzal: a window on womanhood in pre- and post-conquest Mexico / Geoffrey G. McCafferty, Sharisse D. McCafferty -- Artels and identities: gender, power, and Russian America / Katharine Woodhouse-Beyer -- Gender, space, people, and power at Cerʹen, El Salvador / Tracy L. Sweely -- Gendering power / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood -- Rethinking gender and power / Sarah Milledge Nelson -- Repudiating witchcraft / K. Anne Pyburn |
| Summary |
Publisher description: 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social archaeology.
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Ethnoarchaeology.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Sex role.
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Sexual division of labor.
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Indian women -- Social conditions
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Women, Prehistoric -- Social conditions
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ethnoarchaeology.
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sex role.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Ethnoarchaeology
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Indian women -- Social conditions
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Power (Social sciences)
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Sex role
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Sexual division of labor
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Social archaeology
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Geschlechterverhältnis
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Macht
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Sozialarchäologie
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Vor- und Frühgeschichte
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Sekseverschillen.
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Macht.
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Etnoarcheologie.
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Taakverdeling.
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Indianen.
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Vrouwen.
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Arqueologia social.
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Etnoarqueologia.
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Gêneros (grupos sociais) (aspectos sociais)
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Povos (aspectos sociais)
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Mulher.
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Pré-história.
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Archéologie sociale.
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Rôle selon le sexe.
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Femmes préhistoriques -- Conditions sociales.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sweely, Tracy L., 1966-
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| LC no. |
98039602 |
| ISBN |
9780203165218 |
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0203165217 |
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9780415171793 |
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0415171792 |
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9780415197441 |
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0415197449 |
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0585460035 |
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9780585460031 |
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9786610182800 |
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6610182809 |
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