Women in archaeology / edited by Cheryl Claassen
- Bib ID:
- 328269
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1994
- x, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0812232771 (acid-free paper)
- 0812215095 (acid-free paper) (paperback)
- Summary:
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"Pt. 1 of this collection presents a history of women in Americanist archaeology, including a biography of Dorothy Hughes Popenoe who conducted early stratigraphic excavations in Honduras. Pt. 2 focuses on the current status of North American women in Mesoamerican archaeology and problems of gender bias. Valuable discussion of issues, but non-US archaeologists are not covered"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction / Cheryl Claassen
- 2. Creating Their Own Niches: Career Styles Among Women in Americanist Archaeology Between the Wars / Mary Ann Levine
- 3. Ladies of the Expedition: Harriet Boyd Hawes and Edith Hall at Work in Mediterranean Archaeology / Diane L. Bolger
- 4. Dorothy Hughes Popenoe: Eve in an Archaeological Garden / Rosemary A. Joyce
- 5. Blue Corn Girls: A Herstory of Three Early Women Archaeologists at Tecolote, New Mexico / Robert W. Preucel and Meredith S. Chesson
- 6. Marian E. White: Pioneer in New York Archaeology / Susan J. Bender
- 7. Early Women in Southeastern Archaeology: A Preliminary Report on Ongoing Research / Nancy Marie White, Rochelle A. Marrinan and Hester A. Davis
- 8. Madeline Kneberg Lewis: An Original Southeastern Archaeologist / Lynne P. Sullivan
- 9. Down in the Field in Louisiana: An Historical Perspective on the Role of Women in Louisiana Archaeology / Susan J. Wurtzburg.
- 10. Cowgirls with the Blues? A Study of Women's Publication and the Citation of Women's Work in Historical Archaeology / Mary Beaudry and Jacquelyn White
- 11. Women in Mesoamerican Archaeology: Why Are the Best Men Winning? / Anabel Ford
- 12. Male Hunting Camp or Female Processing Station? An Evolution Within a Discipline / Tracy Sweely
- 13. Women in Contract Archaeology / Barbara Avery Garrow, Patrick H. Garrow and Pat A. Thomas
- 14. Academic Alternatives: Gender and Cultural Resource Management in Arizona / Stephanie M. Whittlesey
- 15. Women and Archaeology in Australia / Wendy Beck.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-244) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Claassen, Cheryl, 1953-
- Copyright:
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