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Burials are places where archaeologists reasonably expect gendered ideologies and practices to play out in the archaeological record. Yet only modest progress has been made in teasing out gender from these mortuary contexts. In this volume, methods for doing so are presented, cases of successful gender theorizing from mortuary data presented, and comparisons made between European and Americanist traditions in this kind of work. Cases are broad in temporal and geographic scope—from Inuit burials in Alaska and Oneota mortuary rituals to Viking Scandinavia, Neolithic China and Iron Age Britain. Methods for identifying and analyzing gender are suggested for cultures at various levels of social complexity with or without documentary or ethnoarchaeological evidence to assist in the analysis. A volume of great interest for those attempting to develop an archaeology of gender. Visit Bettina Arnold's web page
Bettina Arnold teaches anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Nancy L. Wicker is in the Art Department at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Gender Ideology and Mortuary AnalysisChapter 3 1. Killing the Female? Archaeological Narratives of InfanticideChapter 4 2. Life, Death, and the Longhouse: A Gendered View of Oneota Social OrganizationChapter 5 3. Gender Studies in Chinese Neolithic ArchaeologyPart 6 Gender and PowerChapter 7 4. Visible Women Made Invisible: Interpreting Varangian Women in Old RussiaChapter 8 5. The Position of Iron Age Scandinavian Women: Evidence from Graves and Rune StonesPart 9 Gender Roles and the Ambiguity of SignificationChapter 10 6. Gender and Mortuary Analysis: What Can Grave Goods Really Tell Us?Chapter 11 7. Sharing the Load: Gender and Task Division at the Windover SiteChapter 12 8. Grave Goods Do Not a Gender Make: A Case Study from Singen am Hohentwiel, GermanyPart 13 Weapons, Women, WarriorsChapter 14 9. Decoding the Gender Bias: Inferences of Atlatls in Female Mortuary ContextsChapter 15 10. Warfare and Gender in the Northern Plains: Osteological Evidence of Trauma Reconsidered
The book provides a much needed compendium of theoretical and methodological examples of engendered approaches to mortuary analysis...succeeds in bringing together several excellent papers that re-examine and test interpretive assumptions regarding gender and mortuary remains...valuable to those interested in the archeology of gender.
