Ancient Maya Women
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Ancient Maya Women

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Ancient Maya Women

About this book

The flood of archaeological work in Maya lands has revolutionized our understanding of gender in ancient Maya society. The dozen contributors to this volume use a wide range of methodological strategies-archaeology, bioarchaeology, iconography, ethnohistory, epigraphy, ethnography-to tease out the details of the lives, actions, and identities of women of Mesoamerica. The chapters, most based upon recent fieldwork in Central America, examine the role of women in Maya society, their place in the political hierarchy and lineage structures, the gendered division of labor, and the discrepancy between idealized Mayan womanhood and the daily reality, among other topics. In each case, the complexities and nuances of gender relations is highlighted and the limitations of our knowledge acknowledged. These pieces represent an important advance in the understanding of Maya socioeconomic, political, and cultural life-and the archaeology of gender-and will be of great interest to scholars and students.

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Yes, you can access Ancient Maya Women by Traci Ardren in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. GENDER AND ARCHAEOLOGY SERIES
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. PREFACE
  7. 1 - Women and Gender in the Ancient Maya World
  8. 2 - Gender and Maya Farming: Chan Nòohol, Belize
  9. 3 - Gender Divisions of Labor and Lowland Terrace Agriculture
  10. 4 - Spindle Whorls: Household Specialization at Ceren
  11. 5 - Death Became Her: Images of Female Power from Yaxuna Burials
  12. 6 - Engendering a Dynasty: A Royal Woman in the Margarita Tomb, Copan
  13. 7 - Lady K’awil, Goddess O, and Maya Warfare
  14. 8 - Women in Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Texts
  15. 9 - Women in the Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of ChichĂŠn ItzĂĄ
  16. 10 - Women-Men (and Men-Women): Classic Maya Rulers and the Third Gender
  17. 11 - Representations of Women in Postclassic and Colonial Maya Literature and Art
  18. 12 - Encountering Maya Women
  19. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  20. INDEX
  21. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS