LEADER 03151oam 2200685I 450 001 9910450840903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-203-59890-3 010 $a1-134-50915-4 010 $a1-280-01942-5 010 $a0-203-50118-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203501184 035 $a(CKB)1000000000255873 035 $a(EBL)182258 035 $a(OCoLC)299570282 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000312378 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11239111 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000312378 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10330954 035 $a(PQKB)11461325 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC182258 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL182258 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10099925 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1942 035 $a(OCoLC)252863596 035 $a(OCoLC)54496002 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000255873 100 $a20180706d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aUngendering civilization /$fedited by K. Anne Pyburn 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-26057-4 311 $a0-415-26058-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 jewelry 327 $aOh my goddess: A meditation on Minoan civilizationUngendering the Maya; Index; 330 $aUngendering 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 determi 606 $aCivilization, Ancient 606 $aComparative civilization 606 $aWomen$xHistory$yTo 500 606 $aSex role$xHistory$yTo 1500 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCivilization, Ancient. 615 0$aComparative civilization. 615 0$aWomen$xHistory 615 0$aSex role$xHistory 676 $a305.42/09 701 $aPyburn$b K. Anne$0947928 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450840903321 996 $aUngendering civilization$92142655 997 $aUNINA