Manifesting power : gender and the interpretation of power in archaeology /

Publisher description: Manifesting Power confronts the relationship between gender and power within prehistoric and historic societies. It addresses the extent to which our reconceptions of the nature of power, and of relations between the sexes, are rooted in our own experience of western society,...

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Other Authors: Sweely, Tracy L., 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • A resort to subtler contrivances / Alice B. Kehoe
  • Egalitarianism, equality, and equitable power / Susan Kent
  • Women leaders in native North American societies: invisible women of power / Ruth Trocolli
  • Gender, power, and heterarchy in middle-level societies / Janet E. Levy
  • Writing on the face of the moon: women's products, archetypes, and power in ancient Maya civilization / Carolyn E. Tate
  • The metamorphosis of Xochiquetzal: a window on womanhood in pre- and post-conquest Mexico / Geoffrey G. McCafferty, Sharisse D. McCafferty
  • Artels and identities: gender, power, and Russian America / Katharine Woodhouse-Beyer
  • Gender, space, people, and power at Cerʹen, El Salvador / Tracy L. Sweely
  • Gendering power / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
  • Rethinking gender and power / Sarah Milledge Nelson
  • Repudiating witchcraft / K. Anne Pyburn.