"This book begins the attempt to answer many of the
archaeological questions we are finally asking about the
long-ignored but crucially important and ever-present social roles
of gender among native Americans in the Southeast." -- Nancy Marie
White, University of South Florida, coeditor of "Grit-Tempered:
Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States"
In the first book about the archaeology of gender in native
societies of southeastern North America, these lively essays
reconstruct the different social roles and relationships adopted by
women and men before and after the arrival of Europeans in the 16th
century. Case studies explore the ways in which gender differences
affected people's daily lives by examining material evidence from
archaeological sites, including grave goods, human remains, spatial
configurations of burials and architecture, and evidence for
economic specialization and the division of labor within
households.
Contents
Introduction: Gender and the Archaeology of the Southeast, by
Christopher B. Rodning and Jane M. Eastman
1. Challenges for Regendering Southeastern Prehistory, by Cheryl
Claassen
2. The Gender Division of Labor in Mississippian Households: Its
Role in Shaping Production for Exchange, by Larissa Thomas
3. Life Courses and Gender among Late Prehistoric Siouan
Communities, by Jane M. Eastman
4. Mortuary Ritual and Gender Ideology in Protohistoric
Southwestern North Carolina, by Christopher B. Rodning
5. Those Men in the Mounds: Gender, Politics, and Mortuary
Practices in Late Prehistoric Eastern Tennessee, by Lynne P.
Sullivan
6. Piedmont Siouans and Mortuary Archaeology on the Eno River,
North Carolina, by Elizabeth I. Monahan Driscoll, R. P. Stephen
Davis, Jr., and H. Trawick Ward
7. Auditory Exostoses: A Clue to Gender in Prehistoric and Historic
Farming Communities of North Carolina and Virginia, by Patricia M.
Lambert
8. Concluding Thoughts, by Janet E. Levy
Jane M. Eastman is visiting assistant professor of anthropology
at East Carolina University. Christopher B. Rodning is a doctoral
candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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