Overview
- Examines gender relations on landscapes and their complex intersection with race, class, ethnicity, and/or religion
- Focuses on minority groups not previously usually addresses in Landscapes Studies
- Explores modern issues of preservation and interpretation of gendered landscapes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Historical archaeology of landscapes initially followed the pattern of Classical Archaeology by studying elite men's gardens. Over time, particularly in North America, the field has expanded to cover larger settlement areas, but still often with ungendered and elite focus. The editors of this volume seek to fill this important gap in the literature by presenting studies of gendered power dynamics and their effect on minority groups in North America. Case studies presented include communities of Native Americans, African Americans, multi-ethnic groups, religious communities, and industrial communities.
Just as the research focus has previously neglected the groups presented here, so too has funding to preserve important archaeological sites. As the contributors to this important volume present a new framework for understanding the archaeology of religious and social minority groups, they also demonstrate the importance of preserving the cultural landscapes, particularly of minority groups, from destruction by the modern dominant culture. A full and complete picture of cultural preservation has to include all of the groups that interacted form it.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Gendering Native American Landscapes
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Gendering African-American Landscapes
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Gendering Multi-ethnic Landscapes
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Gendering Industrial Landscapes
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Archaeology and Preservation of Gendered Landscapes
Editors: Sherene Baugher, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1501-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-1500-9Published: 07 April 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8495-1Published: 28 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-1501-6Published: 11 March 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 392
Topics: History, general, Archaeology, Anthropology