Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective

Notes on the Contributors Introduction; L.Hurcombe PART ONE: QUESTIONING PERSPECTIVES The Material Culture of the Homosexual Male: A Case for Archaeological Exploration; K.Matthews Sisters are Doing it for Themselves? Gender, Feminism and Australian (Aboriginal) Archaeology; S.Colley A Sexist Present, a Human-less Past: Museum Archaeology in Greece; D.Kokkinidou & M.Nikolaidou Gender: Enabling Perspective or Politically Correct Term? An Analysis of How Gender and Material Culture are Viewed by 1990s Academia; M.Baker PART TWO: SOCIAL CONTEXTS FOR CRAFTS, TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION Gender and Craft Innovation: Proposal of a Model; L.Senior Time, Skill and Craft Specialisation as Gender Relations; L.Hurcombe Time, Gender and Production: A Critical Evaluation of Archaeological Time Concepts; C.B.Damm Who Lights the Fire? Gender and the Energy of Production; J.Moore PART THREE: ARTEFACTS AND THEIR SOCIAL SETTINGS Long Handled Weaving Combs: Problems in Determining the Gender of Tool-maker and Tool-user; T.Tuohy The Use of Space in a Gender Study of Two South African Stone Age Sites; L.Wadley Gender, Material Culture, Ritual and Gender System: A Prehistoric Example Based on Sickles; C.Johnsson, K.Ross & S.Welinder Lithic Functional Analysis as a Means of Studying Gender and Material Culture in Prehistory ; L.Owen PART FOUR: DIET, BODIES AND BURIALS Fat is a Feminist Issue: On Ideology, Diet and Health in Hunter-gathering Societies; M.Zvelebil The Anthropology and Archaeology of Mesolithic Gender in the Western Baltic; C.Meiklejohn, E.B.Petersen & V.Alexandersen The Gendering of Children in the Early Bronze Age Cemetery at Mokrin; E.Rega Classic Maya Diet and Gender Relationships; J.Gerry & M.Chesson Index