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Biografisk notat
Traci Ardren is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami. She codirects the Pakbeh Regional Economy Project centered at the ancient Maya trading city of Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico. Her research has focused on gender, iconography, architecture and other forms of symbolic representation in the archaeological record.Deftly edited by Traci Ardren, <i>Ancient Maya Women</i> is a fascinating compilation... A very highly recommended compilation of amazing discoveries and extrapolations of a long-ago culture—and an essential, seminal, core addition to Mayan Studies academic reference collections.
- Betsy L. Hogam, Midwest Book Review
With a foreword from the eminent ethnographer, June Nash, and a broad concluding essay by W. Ashmore, Dr. Ardren introduces 10 thematic essays and case studies of archaeological, epigraphic and historical evidence for women's work and symbolic roles in the prehispanic period (with one paper venturing into the Colonial period too). Much of the evidence is from aristocratic contexts but four of the papers deal with domestic, agricultural and funerary evidence for ordinary people.
- Nicholas James, Antiquity
This volume provides a multidimensional view of women's activities and identities, based on diverse theoretical and methodological approaches that address severe gaps in our knowledge and inspire new questions.
- Rani T. Alexander, Journal of Anthropological Research
At a time when social anthropologists are tending to abandon ethnographic criteria of objectivity and scope of sampling, these papers remind us of the importance of quantitative evidence and repetitive observations in favor of, as well as a supplement to, imaginative interpretations…. It is a welcome addition to feminist studies in critiquing androcentric assumptions that guided both the creators of texts, imagery, and sculpture, as well as ethnohistorical and ethnographic observers over the five hundred years of contact and assimilation.
- June C. Nash, CUNY,
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 1. Women and Gender in the Ancient Maya World
Chapter 3 2. Gender and Mayan Farming: Chan Noohol, Belize
Chapter 4 3. Gender Divisions of Labor and Lowland Terrace Agriculture
Chapter 5 4. Spindle Whorls: Household Specialization at Ceren
Chapter 6 5. Death Became Her: Imagery of Female Power from Yaxuna Burials
Chapter 7 6. Engendering a Dynasty: A Royal Woman in the Margarita Tomb, Copan
Chapter 8 7. Lady K'awil, Goddess O, and Maya Warfare
Chapter 9 8. Women in Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Texts
Chapter 10 9. Women in the Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of Chichen Itza
Chapter 11 10. Women-Men (and Men-Women): Classic Maya Rulers and the Third Gender
Chapter 12 11. Representations of Women in Postclassic and Colonial Maya Literature and Art
Chapter 13 12. Encountering Maya Women
Chapter 14 Index
Chapter 15 About the Authors
This series focuses on ways to understand gender in the past through archaeology. This is a topic poised for significant advances in both method and theory, which in turn can improve all archaeology. The possibilities of new methodological rigor as well as new insights into past cultures are what makes gendered archaeology a vigorous and thriving subfield. This series welcomes single-authored books on themes in this topical area, particularly ones with a comparative focus. Edited collections with a strong theoretical or methodological orientation will also be considered. Audiences are practicing archaeologists and advanced students in this field.
Series Editor: Sarah Milledge Nelson