Description: Edited volume on what archaeological mortuary analysis can tell researchers about gender relations in the ancient world.
Review Quotes:
"The book provides a much needed compendium of theoretical and methodological examples of engendered approaches to mortuary analysis...succeeds in bringing together several excellent papers that re-examine and test interpretive assumptions regarding gender and mortuary remains...valuable to those interested in the archeology of gender." --Canadian Journal of Archaeology
"The...papers [in Gender and the Archaeology of Death] lend unquestionable support to archaeology's role in illuminating women's lives and challenging conventional wisdom about the gendered division of labor...Bettina Arnold and Nancy Wicker have compiled a timely group of papers that encompasses many recent trends in the archaeology of gender. Beyond merely "finding women," the volume rides the waves of newer currents that depict women as diverse, as active, and as individuals with mutable identities." --Patricia E. Rubertone, Brown University, American Antiquity "Drs Arnold & Wicker present 10 substantial studies on mortuary analysis, social power, 'ambiguity of signification, ' and war.... They are interesting and useful, either as case studies or as methodological disquisitions....." --N. James, Antiquity "Drs Arnold & Wicker present 10 substantial studies on mortuary analysis, social power, 'ambiguity of signification, ' and war.... They are interesting and useful, either as case studies or as methodological disquisitions." --N. James, Antiquity