Gender Violence in the American Southwest (AD 1100-1300)

Mothers, Sisters, Wives, Slaves
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-64227-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 225 g

Reihe: Bodies and Lives

This volume uses osteobiography and individual-level analyses of burials retrieved from the La Plata River Valley (New Mexico) to illustrate the variety of roles that Ancestral Pueblo women played in the past (circa AD 1100–1300). The experiences of women as a result of their gender, age, and status over the life course are reconstructed, with consideration given to the gendered forms of violence they were subject to and the consequences of social violence on health. The authors demonstrate the utility of a modern bioarchaeological approach that combines social theories about gender and violence with burial data in conjunction with information from many other sources—including archaeological reconstruction of homes and communities, ethnohistoric resources available on Pueblo society, and Pueblo women’s contemporary voices. This analysis presents a more accurate, nuanced, and complex picture of life in the past for mothers, sisters, wives, and, captives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Debra L.

Ralston, Claira

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Mindful Bodies; 2 Portrait of a Desert Farming Community; 3 Everyday Life Matters: Social Violence at La Plata; 4 Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Slaves: Complexities in Roles and Relations; 5 Capturing Women, Capturing Power

Über Autor(innen)

Debra L. Martin is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas NV, USA.

Claira E. Ralston is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas NV, USA.