Ungendering civilization / / edited by K. Anne Pyburn

• 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
• Altri autori: PyburnK. Anne
• 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: 1-134-50914-6; 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.: 9910810069703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II