• Complain
LitArk » Books » Romance novel

Karen Olsen Bruhns - Women in Ancient America

Here you can read online Karen Olsen Bruhns - Women in Ancient America full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 1999, publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, genre: Romance novel. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

No cover

Women in Ancient America: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Women in Ancient America" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

This first comprehensive work on women in precolumbian American cultures describes gender roles and relationships in North, Central, and South America from 12,000 B.C. to the 1500s A.D. Utilizing many key archaeological works, Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert redress some of the long-standing male bias in writing about ancient Native American lifeways.Bruhns and Stothert focus on several of the most thought-provoking areas of study in the Americas: the origins of agriculture, the development of complex societies, the evolution of religious systems, and the interpretation of art and mortuary materials. The authors pay particular attention to the problems of interpreting archaeological remains and the uses of historic and ethnographic evidence in reconstructing the past.

Karen Olsen Bruhns: author's other books


Who wrote Women in Ancient America? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.


No cover
No cover
Karen Olsen Bruhns
Women in Ancient America

Women in Ancient America — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Women in Ancient America" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓
↑
Reset

Interval:

↓
↑

Bookmark:

Make
1234567...123
title Women in Ancient America author Bruhns Karen Olsen - photo 1
title:Women in Ancient America
author:Bruhns, Karen Olsen.; Stothert, Karen E.
publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin:0806131691
print isbn13:9780806131696
ebook isbn13:9780585196602
language:English
subjectIndian women, Sex role--America, America--Antiquities.
publication date:1999
lcc:E59.W8B78 1999eb
ddc:709/.01
subject:Indian women, Sex role--America, America--Antiquities.
Page iii
Women in Ancient America
Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN
Page iv
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bruhns, Karen Olsen.
Women in ancient America / Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E.
Stothert.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8061-3169-1 (cloth)
1. Indian women. 2. AmericaAntiquities. 3. Sex roleAmerica.
I. Stothert, Karen E. II. Title.
E59.W8B78 1999
305.48'897073dc21 99-16368
CIP
Text design by Gail Carter.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Lonegvity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Picture 2
Copyright 1999 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Page v
To TW and NM
and to the memory of Olaf Holm and Presley Norton
Page vii
Contents
List of Figures
ix
Preface
xiii
Chapter 1
Women and Gender
3
Chapter 2
The First Women in America
26
Chapter 3
Women in the Archaic
49
Chapter 4
Women and Food Production
76
Chapter 5
Women in Households
103
Chapter 6
Women, Production, and Specialization
139
Chapter 7
Women and Religion
167
Chapter 8
Women and Power
214
Chapter 9
Women, War, and Conquest
246
Chapter 10
Women in Prehistory
274
Glossary
283
Notes on Main References
291
Bibliography
305
Sources of Figures
333
Index
337

Page ix
Figures
1.1. Mimbres bowl with pregnant woman who has hunted an antelope and is bringing it home
5
1.2. Autosacrifice of a young woman at Altar de Sacrificios
16
1.3. Lady Xoc of Yaxchiln
19
1.4. Moche female figurine with pigtails
21
1.5a-b. Location of New World sites mentioned in text
22
1.6. List of named periods commonly recognized in American archaeology
25
2.1. ''Man the Hunter," artist's conception
26
2.2. Analysis of items, Ingalik material culture
32
2.3. Reconstruction drawing of Monte Verde, Chile
38
2.4. Floor plan of the Tequendama Rock Shelter, Sabana de Bogot
46
3.1. Chinchorro female mummy
55
3.2. The Lovers of Sumpa, an unusual burial of the Las Vegas culture, southwestern Ecuador
64
3.3. Bedrock mortars and petroglyphs near Volcano, California
70
4.1. Moche vessel of a female carrying a burden with a tumpline
85
4.2. Sixteenth-century woodcut of maize preparation
89
4.3. Floor plan of the Charnel House, Real Alto, Ecuador
99
5.1. Cemeteries and village at Hawikki
106
5.2. Floor plan of an Early Valdivia household unit
Next page
1234567...123
Light

Font size:

↓
↑
Reset

Interval:

↓
↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Women in Ancient America»

Look at similar books to Women in Ancient America. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


No cover
No cover
Karen L. Anderson
Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-century New France
No cover
No cover
Uroš Matić
Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt
No cover
No cover
Karen O Bruhns
Faking the Ancient Andes
Mariano Bonomo - South American Contributions to World Archaeology
South American Contributions to World Archaeology
Mariano Bonomo
South American Contributions to World Archaeology
No cover
No cover
Wibke Bruhns
My Fathers Country
Moore - A Prehistory of South America: ancient cultural diversity on the least known continent
A Prehistory of South America: ancient cultural diversity on the least known continent
Moore
A Prehistory of South America: ancient cultural diversity on the least known continent
Lang - Men as women, women as men: changing gender in Native American cultures
Men as women, women as men: changing gender in Native American cultures
Lang
Men as women, women as men: changing gender in Native American cultures
Karen D. Vitelli - Archaeological Ethics
Archaeological Ethics
Karen D. Vitelli
Archaeological Ethics
Sarah Milledge Nelson - In Pursuit of Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches
In Pursuit of Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches
Sarah Milledge Nelson
In Pursuit of Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches
No cover
No cover
Jerald T. Milanich
Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida
Nina Bruhns - Red Heat (Men in Uniform)
Red Heat (Men in Uniform)
Nina Bruhns
Red Heat (Men in Uniform)
No cover
No cover
Laura Frances Klein
Women and power in native North America
Reviews about «Women in Ancient America»

Discussion, reviews of the book Women in Ancient America and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.