The Archaeology of Identities: A Reader

Libro editado por Timothy Insoll (2007)

Contenido:

1 Introduction: configuring identities in archaeology
TIMOTHY INSOLL

PART I
General perspectives, ethnicity, and nationalism

An introduction
TIMOTHY INSOLL
2 Archaeologies of identity
LYNN MESKELL
3 Discourses of identity in the interpretation of the past
SIÂN JONES
4 The politics of identity in archaeology
MICHAEL ROWLANDS

PART II
Gender and age

An introduction
TIMOTHY INSOLL
5 Girling the girl and boying the boy: the production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica
ROSEMARY A. JOYCE
6 Engendering children, engendering archaeology
JOANNA SOFAER
7 The constitution of archaeological evidence: gender politics and science
ALISON WYLIE

PART III
Sexuality

An introduction
TIMOTHY INSOLL
8 Feminisms, queer theories, and the archaeological study of past sexualities
BARBARA L. VOSS
9 Faience goddesses and ivory bull-leapers: the aesthetics of sexual difference at Late Bronze Age Knossos
BENJAMIN ALBERTI
10 Beyond Mother Earth and Father Sky: sex and gender in Ancient Southwestern visual arts and ethnography
KELLEY HAYS-GILPIN

PART IV
The body

An introduction
TIMOTHY INSOLL
11 Accessing the inaccessible: disability and archaeology
MORAG CROSS
12 Hidden or overlooked? Where are the disadvantaged in the skeletal record?
TONY WALDRON
13 Archaeology’s humanism and the materiality of the body
JULIAN THOMAS

PART V
Class, caste, ideology, and religion

An introduction
TIMOTHY INSOLL
14 Archaeology and the invisible man: the role of slavery in the production of wealth and social class in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, 1820 to 1870
SUSAN C. ANDREWS AND JAMES P. FENTON
15 The archaeological visibility of caste: an introduction
ROBIN CONINGHAM AND RUTH YOUNG
16 Huitzilopochtli’s conquest: Aztec ideology in the archaeological record
ELIZABETH M. BRUMFIEL
17 Ritual and rationality: some problems of interpretation in European archaeology
JOANNA BRÜCK
18 Changing identities in the Arabian Gulf: archaeology, religion, and ethnicity in context
TIMOTHY INSOLL