Women in Ancient America

Women in Ancient America
ISBN-10
0806131691
ISBN-13
9780806131696
Category
Social Science
Pages
343
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Authors
Karen Olsen Bruhns, Karen E. Stothert

Description

This first comprehensive work on women in precolumbian American cultures describes gender roles and relationships in North, Central, and South America from 12,000 B.C. to the 1500s A.D. Utilizing many key archaeological works, Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert redress some of the long-standing male bias in writing about ancient Native American lifeways. Bruhns and Stothert focus on several of the most thought-provoking areas of study in the Americas: the origins of agriculture, the development of complex societies, the evolution of religious systems, and the interpretation of art and mortuary materials. The authors pay particular attention to the problems of interpreting archaeological remains and the uses of historic and ethnographic evidence in reconstructing the past.

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