Reading the body
Subtitle: representations and remains in the archaeological record
By: edited by Alison E. Rautman.
Contributors: Rautman, Alison E.; Gender and Archaeology Conference (4th : 1996 : Michigan State University)
Series: Regendering the past
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Social archaeology; Women, Prehistoric; Sex role -- History; Sex differences -- History; Human remains (Archaeology); Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects
Description: "Reading the Body contains current anthropological and archaeological research about the body and the archaeological record - both physical remains and artistic representations from sites all over the world ranging in time from the European Upper Paleolithic to the Pueblo societies of the recent past.

Essay topics include the reconstruction of the lives of Etruscan women from skeletal remains, gender symbolism in Inuit burials, the erotic clothing of Crete's Minoan culture, and gender identities in Maya ceramic paintings."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-267) and index.
Papers from the 4th Gender and Archaeology Conference, held on Oct. 1996 at Michigan State University.