Ungendering civilization / / edited by K. Anne Pyburn
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| Titolo: |
Ungendering civilization / / edited by K. Anne Pyburn
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.42/09 |
| Soggetto topico: | Civilization, Ancient |
| Comparative civilization | |
| Women - History - To 500 | |
| Sex role - History - To 1500 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
PyburnK. Anne
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 jewelry |
| Oh my goddess: A meditation on Minoan civilizationUngendering the Maya; Index; | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 determi |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ungendering civilization |
| ISBN: | 0-203-59890-3 |
| 1-134-50915-4 | |
| 1-280-01942-5 | |
| 0-203-50118-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450840903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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