| Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology Contributor(s): Joyce, Rosemary A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0500287279 ISBN-13: 9780500287279 Publisher: Thames & Hudson OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: A compelling examination of gender, sexuality, and the family in ancient societies. What was it like to be a woman in prehistoric times? Did the sexual identities and gender roles found in modern society exist hundreds of thousands of years ago? Were age and other social distinctions as important then as now? And how can we ever hope to know, when little evidence survives except for fragments of bone, pottery, and jewelry? Rosemary Joyce draws on a wealth of recent studies that reveal the history of sexual identities to be a diverse and compelling one, offering profound challenges to modern stereotypes and assumptions. 35 illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General - Social Science | Archaeology - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.309 |
| LCCN: 2007905647 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (0.92 lbs) 152 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The ancient Greeks saw men and women as expressing varying degrees of a single sexual potential; many Native American societies considered sexual identity as something that changed and developed during a lifetime, and recognized three or four categories of sexual identity. Ranging from the earliest European hunters who created the first human images known to us almost 30,000 years ago to the lives of men and women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who seldom appear in conventional histories, Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives explores how men and women have represented sexual differences, and lived lives shaped in part by those differences. Professor Joyce shows not only how archaeologists learn about the lives of men and women in the past, but also why the stories they can tell are important to hear today. She challenges us to reconsider how we think about sex and its implications for each person. Showing the critical role of the material world in forming our experiences of and concepts about sex, this book connects archaeology firmly to contemporary studies of material culture and identity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Joyce, Rosemary A.: - Rosemary A. Joyce is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former museum director and curator at Harvard University and UC Berkeley. She has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Honduras since 1977 and her books include Gender and Power in Prehispanic America, The Languages of Archaeology, Embodied Lives, and Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives. |
