Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective

MOIRA DONALD is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter. She has published on the history of the European socialist movement and on women's history in Britain and Russia. She is currently writing a book on the culture and material culture of the socialist movement as well as editing works on twentieth century revolutions and women, trade and business in history. Her work on gender and material culture has focused on gendered possession of clocks, watches, on which she has included a paper in the present volume. LINDA HURCOMBE is Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Exeter. Her research interests focus on stone tools from a variety of contexts and periods but expand to general issues of archaeological material culture and its interpretation. She has published both in these fields and in the perceptions of gender issues within the discipline and is currently preparing a book on the transformation of materials into material culture.

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction; L.Hurcombe PART ONE: QUESTIONING PERSPECTIVES The Material Culture of the Homosexual Male: A Case for Archaeological Exploration; K.Matthews Sisters are Doing it for Themselves? Gender, Feminism and Australian (Aboriginal) Archaeology; S.Colley A Sexist Present, a Human-less Past: Museum Archaeology in Greece; D.Kokkinidou & M.Nikolaidou Gender: Enabling Perspective or Politically Correct Term? An Analysis of How Gender and Material Culture are Viewed by 1990s Academia; M.Baker PART TWO: SOCIAL CONTEXTS FOR CRAFTS, TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION Gender and Craft Innovation: Proposal of a Model; L.Senior Time, Skill and Craft Specialisation as Gender Relations; L.Hurcombe Time, Gender and Production: A Critical Evaluation of Archaeological Time Concepts; C.B.Damm Who Lights the Fire? Gender and the Energy of Production; J.Moore PART THREE: ARTEFACTS AND THEIR SOCIAL SETTINGS Long Handled Weaving Combs: Problems in Determining the Gender of Tool-maker and Tool-user; T.Tuohy The Use of Space in a Gender Study of Two South African Stone Age Sites; L.Wadley Gender, Material Culture, Ritual and Gender System: A Prehistoric Example Based on Sickles; C.Johnsson, K.Ross & S.Welinder Lithic Functional Analysis as a Means of Studying Gender and Material Culture in Prehistory ; L.Owen PART FOUR: DIET, BODIES AND BURIALS Fat is a Feminist Issue: On Ideology, Diet and Health in Hunter-gathering Societies; M.Zvelebil The Anthropology and Archaeology of Mesolithic Gender in the Western Baltic; C.Meiklejohn, E.B.Petersen & V.Alexandersen The Gendering of Children in the Early Bronze Age Cemetery at Mokrin; E.Rega Classic Maya Diet and Gender Relationships; J.Gerry & M.Chesson Index