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Women in ancient America
- Title
- Women in ancient America / Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert.
- Author
- Bruhns, Karen Olsen.
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2014]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Stothert, Karen E.
- Description
- xvii, 293 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This new edition of Women in Ancient America draws on recent advances in the archaeology of gender to reexamine the activities, roles, and relationships of women in the prehistoric Native societies of North, Central, and South America. Women--and women's work--have been crucial to the survival and success of American peoples since ancient times. And as hunting and foraging societies developed farming techniques and eventually created permanent settlements, women's roles changed. Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert consider the various economic adaptations that followed, as well as the ways in which women participated in food production and the specialized industries of their societies. They also look at women's access to power, both political and religious, paying particular attention to the place of priestesses and goddesses in the spiritual life of ancient peoples. The narrative that unfolds in Women in Ancient America is based on the most recent research, using evidence and examples from a wide range of cultures dating from the Paleoindian period to European invasion. This book, unlike others, treats many different types of societies, as the authors develop arguments sure to provoke thinking about the lives of women who inhabited the Americas in the distant past.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-286) and index.
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition -- Women and gender -- The first women in America -- Women in the Archaic -- Women and food production -- Women in households -- Women, production, and specialization -- Women and religion -- Women and power -- Women, war, and conquest -- Women in prehistory -- Glossary.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-1590
- ISBN
- 9780806146287
- 0806146281
- LCCN
- 2014001706
- 40023995430
- OCLC
- 877077255
- Author
- Bruhns, Karen Olsen.
- Title
- Women in ancient America / Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert.
- Publisher
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2014]
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-286) and index.
- Added Author
- Stothert, Karen E.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40023995430
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-1590