Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood is a cross-cultural
ethnoarchaeological study of the gendered nature of subsistence in
northern hunter-gatherer-fisher societies. Based on field studies
of four circumpolar societies, it documents the complexities of
women’s and men’s involvement in food procurement, processing,
and storage, and the relationship of such behaviors to the built
landscape. Avoiding simplistic stereotypes of male and female
roles, the framework of “gendered landscapes” reveals the
variability and flexibility of women’s and men’s actual lives
in a manner useful for archaeological interpretations of
hunter-foragers. Innovative in scope and design, this is the first
study to employ a controlled, four-way, cross-cultural comparison
of gender and subsistence. Members of an international team of
anthropologists experienced in northern scholarship apply the same
task-differentiation methodology in studies of Chipewyan
hunter-fishers of Canada, Khanty hunter-fisher-herders of Western
Siberia, Sámi intensive reindeer herders of northwestern Finland,
and Iñupiaq maritime hunters of the Bering Strait of Alaska. This
database on gender and subsistence is used to reassess one of the
bedrock concepts in anthropology and social science: the sexual
division of labor.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2008 |
| Firstpublished: |
December 2008 |
| Editors: |
Robert Jarvenpa
• Hetty Jo Brumbach
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
332 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8032-2078-2 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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| LSN: |
0-8032-2078-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780803220782 |
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