Gender, Households, and Society

Download or read book Gender, Households, and Society written by Cynthia Robin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume demonstrates how archaeological data viewed through the lens of gender studies can lead researchers to question and reformulate current models of household organization, subsistence and craft production, ritual performance, and the structure of ancient states. Challenges existing models of prehistoric society that assume the existence of rigidly binary gender systems Part of the Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association Series