Gender and Hide Production

Lisa Frink is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Kathryn Weedman is a Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.

A book dedicated to hideworking for archaeologists is long overdue, since hides are an important product of herding as well as hunting. The authors in this volume take multiple approaches to the subject, both archaeologically and ethnographically. They demonstrate that hideworking is interesting, is related to gender in surprising ways, and is related to many other facets of culture. The book deserves to be read cover to cover by any prehistorian, and then kept handy on the shelf as a reference.

• 1 Foreword by Sarah Milledge Nelson 2 Chapter 1. Introduction to Gender and Hide Production 3 Chapter 2. These Boots Were Made for Walking: Moccasin Production, Gender, and the Late Prehistoric Hideworking Sequence on the High Plains of Colorado 4 Chapter 3. The Shifting Role of Women and Women's Labor on the Protohistoric Southern High Plains 5 Chapter 4. Late Prehistoric Bison Hide Production and Hunter-Gatherer Identities on the North American Plains 6 Chapter 5. Hideworking and Changes in Women's Status among the Arikara, 1700-1862 7 Chapter 6. Gender and the Hide Production Process in Colonial Western Alaska 8 Chapter 7. Gender Visibility and Division of Iñupiat Labor in an Arctic Industrial Enterprise 9 Chapter 8. Examining "Universal" Hide Chewing Practices Among Alaskan Eskimos 10 Chapter 9. Expedient Angled-Tang Endscrapers: Glimpsing Women's Work in the Archaeological Record 11 Chapter 10. Hide Tanning: The Act of Reviving 12 Chapter 11. Hideworking among Descendants of Khoekhoen Pastoralists in the Northern Cape, South Africa 13 Chapter 12. Gender and Stone Tools: An Ethnographic Study of the Konso and Gamo Hideworkers of Southern Ethiopia 14 Chapter 13. Feminist Boundary Crossings: Challenging Androcentric Assumptions and Stereotypes about Hideworking 15 References 16 Index 17 About the Authors