Research Catalog

Title

Native American landscapes : an engendered perspective / edited by Cheryl Claassen.

Publication

Knoxville, TN : University of Tennessee Press, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

Claassen, Cheryl, 1953-

Description

xxxv, 290 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"This manuscript is an edited collection of essays focusing on archaic and prehistoric North America. Cheryl Claassen argues that specifically focusing on an engendered landscape study allows the contributors to raise issues of women's mobility, fertility, retreat locations, pilgrimages, and an overall exploration of the customarily different tasks undertaken by native men and women. The collection explores a range of sites throughout North America, including locations such as the Mojave Desert, the Mississippi River Valley, the Cumberland Plateau, and the Northwest coast, among others."--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Sex role > History > To 1500
• Women, Prehistoric
• Indian women > History > To 500
• Social archaeology
• Feminist archaeology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Native women, men, and American landscapes : the gendered gaze / Cheryl Claassen -- Part 1: The Cumberland and Ozark Plateaus. 1. Rock shelters, boulders, and bleeding rocks : uncovering elements of women's ritual landscape in the Midcontinent / Cheryl Claassen ; 2. Bedrock mortar hole sites as artifacts of women's taskscapes : late archaic and early Woodland chaîne opératoire on the upper Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee / Jay Franklin, Lucinda Langston, and Meagan Dennison ; 3. Rock art, gender, and the Dhegihan landscape / James R. Duncan and Carol Diaz-Granados ; 4. Women as symbols and actors in the Mississippi Valley : evidence from female flint-clay statues and effigy vessels / Natalie G. Mueller and Gayle J. Fritz -- Part 2: The Plains. 5. Indian Lake Medicine Boulder and fertility on the American northwestern Plains at Euroamerican contact / Mavis Greer and John Greer ; 6. Gendered landscapes? : if you speak an Algonkian language / Alice Beck Kehoe -- Part 3: The Gulf Coast and Western U.S. 7. Gendered landscapes and the late prehistoric occupation of the Mojave Desert / Barbara J. Roth ; 8. Physical versus social settings : two case studies - Kwakwaka'wakw, Northwest Coast, and the Hawai'ian Islands - of gender and landscape constructions / Jessica Joyce Christie ; 9. Women pilgrims, landscape, and politics in postclassic Mesoamerica / Shankari Patel.

Call Number

JFE 16-11310

ISBN

• 9781621902539 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1621902536 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2016004226

OCLC

930257235

Title

Native American landscapes : an engendered perspective / edited by Cheryl Claassen.

Publisher

Knoxville, TN : University of Tennessee Press, [2016]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Claassen, Cheryl, 1953- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Native American landscapes First edition. Knoxville, TN : University of Tennessee Press, [2016] 9781621902546

Research Call Number

JFE 16-11310