03148oam 2200685I 450 991078394910332120230617000910.01-134-50914-60-203-59890-31-134-50915-41-280-01942-50-203-50118-710.4324/9780203501184 (CKB)1000000000255873(EBL)182258(OCoLC)299570282(SSID)ssj0000312378(PQKBManifestationID)11239111(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000312378(PQKBWorkID)10330954(PQKB)11461325(MiAaPQ)EBC182258(Au-PeEL)EBL182258(CaPaEBR)ebr10099925(CaONFJC)MIL1942(OCoLC)252863596(OCoLC)54496002(EXLCZ)99100000000025587320180706d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUngendering civilization /edited by K. Anne PyburnNew York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-26057-4 0-415-26058-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: Rethinking complex society; Gendered states: Gender and agency in economic models of Great Zimbabwe; The use and abuse of ethnographic analogies in interpretations of gender systems at Cahokia; The ~marauding pagan warrior~ woman; Tracing women in early Sumer; Leaders, healers, laborers, and lovers: Reinterpreting women's roles in Moche society; The benefits of an archaeology of gender for predynastic Egypt; All the Harappan men are naked, but the women are wearing jewelryOh my goddess: A meditation on Minoan civilizationUngendering the Maya; Index; Ungendering Civilization offers a much needed scrutiny of the role of women in the evolution of states. The contributors critically address traditional views of male and female roles; they argue for the possibility that the root historical cause of gender subordination is participation in modern world system, rather than 'innate' tendencies to domesticity and child-rearing in women, and leadership and aggression in men. Each of the nine papers examines a distinct body of archaeological data - from societies including Predynastic Egypt, Minoan Crete, ancient Zimbabwe and the Maya - to determiCivilization, AncientComparative civilizationWomenHistoryTo 500Sex roleHistoryTo 1500Civilization, Ancient.Comparative civilization.WomenHistorySex roleHistory305.42/09Pyburn K. Anne1490729FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910783949103321Ungendering civilization3805490UNINA