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Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica (Regendering the Past)
Cheryl Claassen
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Paperback. During the 1960s, scholars constructed a model of cultural evolution in which men cooperated in the hunting of big game while women gathered plant food, "immobilized" by pregnancy and childcare. The essays in Women in Prehistory challenge this model as they reconsider women's social and economic roles. Editor(s): Claassen, Cheryl; Joyce, Rosemary A. Series: Regendering the past. Num Pages: 288 pages, 52 illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBLC; HDDA; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466.
During the 1960s, in such works as Man the Hunter, scholars constructed a model of cultural evolution in which men were characterized as cooperative hunters of big game. Women fit neatly into this model, such books as Woman the Gatherer explained, as gatherers of plant food. In spite of evidence of hunting by women, this model-which incorporated the unexamined assumption that women in prehistory were immobilized by pregnancy, lactation, and child care and therefore needed to be left at a home base-came to dominate archaeological interpretation of the economic roles of men and women. ... Read more
During the 1960s, in such works as Man the Hunter, scholars constructed a model of cultural evolution in which men were characterized as cooperative hunters of big game. Women fit neatly into this model, such books as Woman the Gatherer explained, as gatherers of plant food. In spite of evidence of hunting by women, this model-which incorporated the unexamined assumption that women in prehistory were immobilized by pregnancy, lactation, and child care and therefore needed to be left at a home base-came to dominate archaeological interpretation of the economic roles of men and women. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Series
Regendering the past
Condition
New
Weight
466g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812216028
SKU
V9780812216028
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About Cheryl Claassen
Contributors include Jeffrey Bendremer, Hetty Jo Brumbach, Patricia Galloway, Susan Gillespie, Byron Hamann, Julia Hendon, Sandra Hollimon, Robert Jarvenpa, Lyle Koehler, Richard Lesure, Susan Prezzano, Alison Rautman, Mary Beth Williams, Diane Wilson, and the editors. Cheryl Claassen is Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University in North Carolina and is the editor of Women in Archaeology, also available from the ... Read more
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