Gender in African prehistory
By: edited by Susan Kent.
Contributors: Kent, Susan Kingsley.
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Sex role -- Africa; Prehistoric peoples -- Africa; Africa -- Antiquities; Archaeology -- Africa
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-342) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender and prehistory in Africa / Susan Kent; title: Resolving the past : gender in the Stone Age archaeological record of the Western Cape / John Parkington; title: Invisible gender; title: invisible foragers : southern African hunter-gatherer spatial patterning and the archaeological record / Susan Kent; title: The invisible meat providers : women in the Stone Age of South Africa / Lyn Wadley; title: Just a formality : the presence of fancy projectile points in a basic tool assemblage / Joanna Casey; title: Social variability among Holocene Saharan groups : how to recognize gender / Barbara Barich; title: Gender and early pastoralists in East Africa / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez; title: Reading gender in the ancient iron technology of Africa / Peter Schmidt; title: Gendered technologies and gendered activities in the interlacustrine early Iron Age / Rachel MacLean; title: Engendered spaces and bodily practices in the Iron Age of southern Africa / Paul Lane; title: Men and women in a market economy : gender and craft production in west central Ghana ca. 1775-1995 / Ann B. Stahl and Maria das Dores Cruz; title: Daughters of cattle : the significance of herding in the growth of complex societies in southern Africa between the 10th and 15th centuries AD / Alinah Segobye; title: A consideration of gender relations in the late Iron Age "Sotho" sequence of the western Highveld, South Africa / Simon Hall; title: Toward an archaeology of gender in Africa / Fekri Hassan; title: Views of gender in African prehistory from a Middle Eastern perspective / Ofer Bar-Yosef and Anna Belfer-Cohen; title: Reflections on gender studies in African and Asian archaeology / Sarah Milledge Nelson.