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Archaeologies of gender and violence / edited by Uroš Matić and Bo Jensen.

Other author/creatorMatić, Uroš editor, author.
Other author/creatorJensen, Bo, editor, author.
Format Book and Print
EditionPaperback edition.
Publication Info Oxford, United Kingdom ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2017.
Copyright Notice ©2017
Descriptionxi, 273 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Cover title Archaeologies of gender & violence
Contents Preface / Uroš Matić and Bo Jensen -- Introduction : why do we need archaeologies of gender and violence and why now? / Bo Jensen and Uroš Matić -- Revisiting the myth of matriarchy, rethinking determinism, seeing anew / Stephanie Koerner -- The honoured and the sacrificed? : gender and violence at a sanctuary of the late 3rd millennium BC in central Germany / André Spatzier, with anthropological analyses by Marcus Stecher and Kurt W. Alt -- The role of violence in the construction of prehistoric masculinities / Lisbeth Skogstrand -- "Her striking but cold beauty" : gender and violence in depictions of Queen Nefertiti smiting the enemies / Uroš Matić -- Les demoiselles d'Entremont : violence, gender and headhunting in Iron Age Europe / Ian Armit -- Violence against women in Graeco-Roman Egypt : the contribution of Demotic documents / Christine Hue-Arcé -- Death and the maiden : late antique images of nubile females as agents and victims of lethal violence / Susanne Moraw -- Heaven for me, hell for the "others" : an agenda on sex and body from Sassanid Persia / Maryam Dezhamkhooy and Leila Papoli Yazdi -- Skull-cups and snake-pits : men's revenge and women's revenge in Viking age Scandinavia / Bo Jensen -- The weapons make the man? : a re-analysis of early Anglo-Saxon weapon burial and interpretation / Laura M. Whitehouse -- Gender and structural violence in prehistoric Peru / Julie Farnum -- Gender and violence in archaeology : final commentary / Louise Hitchock.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Issued in other formOnline version: Archaeologies of gender and violence Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017 9781785706899
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2017019917
ISBN9781785706882 paperback
ISBN1785706888 paperback

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