Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology | 
| Author: Rosemary A. Joyce
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 136
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0500051534
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.309
EAN: 9780500051535
ASIN: 0500051534
Publication Date: May 26, 2008
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A compelling examination of gender, sexuality, and trhe family in ancient societies.
What was it like to be a woman in prehistoric times? Did the sexual identities and gender roles found in modern society exist hundreds of thousands of years ago? Were age and other social distinctions as important then as now? And how can we ever hope to know, when little evidence survives except for fragments of bone, pottery, and jewelry?
Rosemary Joyce draws on a wealth of recent studies that reveal the history of sexual identities to be a diverse and compelling one, offering profound challenges to modern stereotypes and assumptions. Maya Queens and Old European matriarchs, African-American midwives and Central Asian "Amazons": through these and other examples, Dr. Joyce demonstrates that the distinction between men and women was by no means the only way in which ancient people defined themselves, nor even the most important one. She also suggests that same-sex desire, far from being regarded as unnatural, could occupy an important and accepted place in some cultures. 35 illustrations.
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An engaging book July 27, 2008
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Archaeology is not my field, but from the first page on, that did not seem to matter. Rosemary Joyce writes with both scholarly depth and engaging accessibility; I could hardly put the book down.
I especially appreciated her nuanced navigation of the field of gender studies, which sometimes can be more political than scholarly. That was not at all the case in Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives. Joyce did what the best authors do: inspire me to read more in her field(s) -- and more of her work.
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