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Women in Archaeology

Claassen Cheryl
Heftet / 1994 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780812215090
Published
1994-06-01
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
U, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
264

Edited by
Claassen Cheryl

Biographical note

Contributors include: M. A. Levine (Career styles among women in Americanist archaeology between the Wars); D. L. Bolger (Harriet Boyd Hawes and Edith Hall at work in Mediterranean archaeology); R. A. Joyce (Dorothy Hughes Popenoe); R. W. Preucel and M. S. Chesson (Three early women archaeologists at Tecolote, New Mexico); S. J. Bender (Marian E. White: Pioneer in New York archaeolgy); S. J. Wurtzburg (An historical perspective on the role of women in Louisiana archaeology); M. Beaudry and J. White (Women's work in Historical Archaeology); A Ford (Women in Mesoamerican archaeology); B. A. Garrow, P. H. Garrow, and P. A. Thomas (Women in contract archaeology); S. M. Whittlesey (Gender and cultural resource management in Arizona); W. Beck (Women and archaeology in Australia).

Women in Archaeology

Claassen Cheryl
Heftet / 1994 / Engelsk
Claassen Cheryl
Heftet / 1994 / Engelsk
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<p>"Slowly the record is being set straight. Here is a fine collection of essays that help fill the gender gap in the history of archaeological practice."-<i>Choice</i></p> <p>"This volume represents an important contribution to the growing literature about the relationships between gender and the theory and practice of archaeology. . . . Claassen has moved well beyond a too-heavy focus on argument by assertion to the production of well-thought-through analyses of primary data."-<i>British Journal of the History of Science</i></p>

<p><i>Women in Archaeology</i> documents and discusses attempts to exclude women from the discipline of archaeology and the resulting androcentrism of archaeological knowledge.</p>
The fourteen essays in this collection explore the place of women in archaeology in the twentieth century, arguing that they have largely been excluded from "an essentially all-male establishment."

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<p>"Slowly the record is being set straight. Here is a fine collection of essays that help fill the gender gap in the history of archaeological practice."-<i>Choice</i></p> <p>"This volume represents an important contribution to the growing literature about the relationships between gender and the theory and practice of archaeology. . . . Claassen has moved well beyond a too-heavy focus on argument by assertion to the production of well-thought-through analyses of primary data."-<i>British Journal of the History of Science</i></p>

<p><i>Women in Archaeology</i> documents and discusses attempts to exclude women from the discipline of archaeology and the resulting androcentrism of archaeological knowledge.</p>
The fourteen essays in this collection explore the place of women in archaeology in the twentieth century, arguing that they have largely been excluded from "an essentially all-male establishment."

Product details

ISBN
9780812215090
Published
1994-06-01
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
U, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
264

Edited by
Claassen Cheryl

Biographical note

Contributors include: M. A. Levine (Career styles among women in Americanist archaeology between the Wars); D. L. Bolger (Harriet Boyd Hawes and Edith Hall at work in Mediterranean archaeology); R. A. Joyce (Dorothy Hughes Popenoe); R. W. Preucel and M. S. Chesson (Three early women archaeologists at Tecolote, New Mexico); S. J. Bender (Marian E. White: Pioneer in New York archaeolgy); S. J. Wurtzburg (An historical perspective on the role of women in Louisiana archaeology); M. Beaudry and J. White (Women's work in Historical Archaeology); A Ford (Women in Mesoamerican archaeology); B. A. Garrow, P. H. Garrow, and P. A. Thomas (Women in contract archaeology); S. M. Whittlesey (Gender and cultural resource management in Arizona); W. Beck (Women and archaeology in Australia).

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