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Katheryn M. Linduff is in the departments of art history and anthropology at University of Pittsburgh. Yan Sun is in the department of Visual Arts at Gettysburg College<i>Gender and Chinese Archaeology</i> is the first book to consider gender in the archaeological record of China. Linduff and Sun have assembled a group of China specialists who read the primary literature in Chinese archaeology and apply sophisticated analyses of gender to artifacts and sites. The chapters range from Neolithic sites to the Han Dynasty. Far from showing a monolithic disregard of women in early China, this book reveals many different gender roles and ideologies. The variation in gender in these times and places, depending sometimes on class or age or other attributes, is one of the important messages of the book.
- Sarah Milledge Nelson,
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Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Introduction: Gender and Chinese Archaeology
Part 3 PART I: THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD
Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Marxist and Post-Marxist Paradigms for the Neolothic
Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Mortuary Ritual in Northwestern China
Chapter 6 Chapter 3: The Late Neolithic Cemetery at Dadianzi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Part 7 PART II: SHANG DYNASTIC PERIOD
Chapter 8 Chapter 4: Queens and Royal Ladies at Anyang
Part 9 PART III: ZHOU DYNASTIC PERIOD
Chapter 10 Chapter 5: Ritual Practice, Status, and Gender Identity: Western Zhou at Baoji
Chapter 11 Chapter 6: Gender Differentiation in Jin State Jade Regulations
Chapter 12 Chapter 7: Gender, Status, Ritual Regulations, and Mortuary Practice in the State of Jin
Chapter 13 Chapter 8: Female and Male Status Displayed at the Maoqinggou Cemetery
Chapter 14 Chapter 9: Gender and Kinship in Burial Practice at the Pinyang Site
Part 15 PART IV: HAN-DATE PERIOD
Chapter 16 Chapter 10: Female Divinities in Han Dynasty Representation
Chapter 17 Chapter 11: Figures Horsemen in the Dian Culture of Yunnan
Chapter 18 Chapter 12: Textile Production and Female Status in Bronze Age Yunnan
Part 19 Glossary
Part 20 Bibliography
Part 21 Index
Part 22 About the Contributors
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