Power - Social Sciences, Native American Studies - General & Miscellaneous, Socio-Cultural Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous, Sex Role - General & Miscellaneous, Ethnology, Archaeology - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
Power relations among humans have likely been a topic of interest since long before any historical claims to its nature were proffered. This book recognizes that power and gender may be rooted in the experience of power in western society.
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Essays confront the relationship between gender and power within prehistoric and historic societies, addressing 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 arguing that both conditions and perceptions have been quite different among people of the past. Chapters draw on data from a range of periods and areas to look at evidence for gender distinctions both from archaeological sites and from ethnographic observation, revealing that evidence frequently does not point to the existence of hierarchical gender relationships. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)Book Details
Published
February 25, 1999
Publisher
London ; Routledge, 1999.
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780415197441