文档介绍：Manifesting Power
Manifesting Power confronts the relationship between gender and power within
prehistoric and historic societies. It addresses the extent to which our
preconceptions of the nature of power, and of relations between the sexes, are
rooted in our own experience of Western society, and argues that both conditions
and perceptions may have been quite different among peoples of the past.
This prises eleven innovative, diverse chapters which draw on
data from a range of periods and areas. By looking at the evidence for gender
distinctions both from archaeological sites and from ethnographic observation,
the contributors explore what these distinctions can reveal about power
relationships more generally. They reveal that the evidence frequently does not
point to the existence of hierarchical gender relationships, and explore forms of
power which seem to have been exercised by prehistoric women among the Maya
and Aztec, and those of the Southeastern United States, Denmark and Alaska.
Manifesting Power will be of great interest to students of archaeology,
anthropology, power, and gender studies.
Tracy has conducted research in archaeology and anthropology at the
University of Colorado at Boulder. She continues to study social phenomena
and currently works in cultural resources management.
Manifesting Power
Gender and the interpretation of power in
archaeology
Edited by Tracy
London and New York
First published 1999
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
© 1999 Selection and editorial matter, Tracy ; individual chapters,
the contributors
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