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Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory

by · 1991

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This pathbreaking book brings gender issues to archaeology for the first time, in an explicit and theoretically informed way. In it, leading archaeologists from around the world contribute original analyses of prehistoric data to discover how gender systems operated in the past.

Subject
anthropologyanthropologyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
archaeologyarchaeologyMore like thisLess of thisgendergenderMore like thisLess of thisfeminismfeminismMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
long · 418 pages

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