OU
Anthropology 4953
Spring 2005
Chris Rodning
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF GENDER

This course is an introduction to how archaeologists study the gender roles and identities of men, women, and children in past societies, and the ideologies underlying gender differences. Anthropologists have identified great diversity in the lives of men, women, and children in different cultures. Gender differences are very often related to the age and biological sex of individuals, but there is considerable cultural variation in the kinds of tasks, leadership roles, and ritual practices that members of different gender groups perform. Readings, lectures, and class discussions in this course consider the ways in which the study of graves, architecture, pottery, stone tools, rock art, and other kinds of archaeological evidence contribute to knowledge about the practice of gender in the past. Students in this course will read several case studies that demonstrate archaeological approaches to the topic of gender. They will write brief essays summarizing selected readings in addition to one longer term paper.

This class meets MWF 12:30-1:20PM in DH 31.

Office hours are Mondays 10-12 and Tuesdays 2-4 in DHT 512.

Chris Rodning
(405)325-5411
(919)225-5658
crodning@earthlink.net

University of Oklahoma
Department of Anthropology

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEXT CLASS Hand in your second article summary on or before March 30. LAST CLASS


READINGS

Students should read required articles before the class meeting for which they are assigned. The schedule of topics and assignments listed here includes both *required* and *recommended* readings. Required readings are, of course, required for all students. Students interested in reading further on any given topic are encouraged to look at some or all of the recommended readings. The following required textbooks may be found at the OU bookstore, or purchased through used booksellers, and they are also available on reserve at the OU library. Students will receive some additional required readings as handouts in class or as articles on reserve at the library.


WRITING

All students taking this course will take a quiz early in the semester and a final exam at the end of the term. Students taking this course for undergraduate credit will write three article summaries, each two to three pages in length, and one 10-page term paper on topics they choose. Those taking this course for graduate credit will prepare an annotated bibliography and will write one 20-page term paper. Students are encouraged to consult with the instructor about paper topics and to write rough drafts of term papers before handing them in.

Writing assignments for undergraduate students:

Writing assignments for graduate students:


SCHEDULE


 

    M1/31 Writing AssignmentsTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Claassen, C. (1997) "Changing Venue: Women's Lives in Prehistoric North America." In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by C. Claassen and R. A. Joyce, pp. 65-87. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Crown, P. L. (2001) "Gendered Tasks, Power, and Prestige in the Prehispanic American Southwest." In Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige, edited by P. L. Crown, pp. 3-41. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
      • Kent, S. (1998) " Gender and Prehistory in Africa." In Gender in African Prehistory, edited by S. Kent, pp. 9-21. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
      • Rodning, C. B., and J. M. Eastman (2001) "." In Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States, edited by J. M. Eastman and C. B. Rodning, pp. . University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
    W2/2 InterpretationTOP
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Monahan Driscoll, E. I., R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr., H. T. Ward (2001) "Piedmont Siouans and Mortuary Archaeology on the Eno River, North Carolina." In Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States, edited by J. M. Eastman and C. B. Rodning, pp. . University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
    F2/4 Finding Women and ChildrenTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Kent S. (1998) "Invisible Gender-Invisible Foragers: Late Stone Age Southern African Hunter-Gatherer Prehistory and the Archaeological Record." In Gender in African Prehistory, edited by S. Kent, pp. 39-67. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Peters, V. B. (2000) Women of the Earth Lodges: Tribal Life on the Plains. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
      • Spector, J. D. (1983) "Male/Female Task Differentiation Among the Hidatsa: Toward the Development of an Archaeological Approach to the Study of Gender." In The Hidden Half, edited by P. Albers and B. Medicine, pp. 77-99. University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland.
      • Spector, J. D. (1991) "What this Awl Means: Toward a Feminist Archaeology." In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by J. M. Gero and M. W. Conkey, pp. 388-406. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
    M2/7 WomenTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Rautman, A. (1997) "Changes in Regional Exchange Relationships During the Pithouse-to-Pueblo Transition in the American Southwest: Implications for Gender Roles." In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by C. Claassen and R. A. Joyce, pp. 100-118. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Gilchrist, R. (1994) Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women. Routledge, London.
    W2/9 ChildrenTOP
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Baxter, J. E. (2005) The Archaeology of Childhood: Children, Gender, and Material Culture. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    F2/11 Men [first article summary due]TOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Hall, S. (1998) "A Consideration of Gender Relations in the Late Iron Age 'Sotho' Sequence of the Western Highveld, South Africa." In Gender in African Prehistory, edited by S. Kent, pp. 235-258. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Whelan, M. K. (1991) Gender and Historical Archaeology: Eastern Dakota Patterns in the Nineteenth Century. Historical Archaeology 25:17-32.
      • Scott, E. M. (1991) A Feminist Approach to Historical Archaeology: Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade Society at Michilimackinac. Historical Archaeology 25:42-53.
      • Woodehouse-Beyer, K. (1999) "Artels and Identities: Gender, Power, and Russian America." In Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology, edited by T. L. Sweely, pp. 129-154. Routledge, London.
    M2/14 Gender and EvolutionTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Wadley, L. (1998) "The Invisible Meat Providers: Women in the Stone Age of South Africa." In Gender in African Prehistory, edited by S. Kent, pp. 69-81. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Fedigan, L. M. (1986) The Changing Role of Women in Models of Human Evolution. Annual Review of Anthropology 15:25-66.
      • Silk, J. (1993) "Primatological Perspectives on Gender." In Sex and Gender Hierarchies, edited by B. D. Miller, pp. 212-235. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
      • Peterson, J. D. (2002) Sexual Revolutions: Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
      • Zihlman, A. L. (1993) "Sex Differences and Gender Hierarchies Among Primates: An Evolutionary Perspective." In Sex and Gender Hierarchies, edited by B. D. Miller, pp. 32-56. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
    W2/16 Gender as an Archaeological Research TopicTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Hendon, J. A. (1997) "Women's Work, Women's Space, and Women's Status Among the Classic-Period Maya Elite of the Copan Valley." In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by C. Claassen and R. A. Joyce, pp. 33-46. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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    F2/18 IdeologyTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Hays-Gilpin, K. A. (2001) "Gender Ideology and Ritual Activities." In Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige, edited by P. L. Crown, pp. 91-135. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Gibb, L. (1987) "Identifying Gender Representation in the Archaeological Record: A Contextual Study." In The Archaeology of Contextual Meanings, edited by I. Hodder, pp. 79-89. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
      • Pollock, S. (1991) "Women in a Men's World: Images of Sumerian Women." In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by J. M. Gero and M. W. Conkey, pp. 366-387. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
      • Levy, J. E. (1999) "Gender, Power, and Heterarchy in Middle-Level Societies." In Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology, edited by T. L. Sweely, pp. 62-78. Routledge, London.
    M2/21 LeadershipTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Neitzel, J. E. (2001) "Gender Hierarchies: A Comparative Analysis of Mortuary Data." In Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige, edited by P. L. Crown, pp. 137-168. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Arnold, B. (1996) "'Honorary Males' or Women of Substance? Gender, Status, and Power in Iron Age Europe." Journal of European Archaeology 3:153-168.
      • Berres, T. E. (2001) Power and Gender in Oneota Culture: A Study of a Late Prehistoric People. DeKalb, Northern Illinois University Press.
      • Howell, T. (1995)
      • Howell, T., and K. Kintigh (1996)
      • Joyce, R. A. (2001) Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica. University of Texas Press, Austin.
      • Sullivan, L. P., and C. B. Rodning (2001) "Gender, Tradition, and the Negotiation of Power Relationships in Southern Appalachian Chiefdoms." In The Archaeology of Traditions: Agency and History Before and After Columbus, edited by T. R. Pauketat, pp. . University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
      • Trocolli, R. (1999) "Women Leaders in Native North American Societies: Invisible Women of Power." In Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology, edited by T. L. Sweely, pp. 49-61. Routledge, London.
    W2/23 RankTOP
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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    F2/25 Status [paper topic and bibliography due]TOP
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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    M2/28 TradeTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Spielmann, K. A. (2001) "Gender and Exchange." In Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige, edited by P. L. Crown, pp. 345-377. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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    W3/2 ExchangeTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Gillespie, S. D., and R. A. Joyce (1997) "Gendered Goods: The Symbolism of Maya Hierarchical Exchange Relations." In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by C. Claassen and R. A. Joyce, pp. 189-207. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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    F3/4 Rock ArtTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Parkington, J. (1998) "Resolving the Past: Gender in the Stone Age Archaeological Record of the Western Cape." In Gender in African Prehistory, edited by S. Kent, pp. 25-37. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Conkey, M. W. (1991) "Contexts of Action, Contexts for Power: Material Culture and Gender in the Magdalenian." In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by J. M. Gero and M. W. Conkey, pp. 57-92. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
      • Handsman, R. G. (1991) " Whose Art was Found at Lepenski Vir? Gender Relations and Power in Archaeology." In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by J. M. Gero and M. W. Conkey, pp. 329-365. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
      • Hays-Gilpin, K. A. (2003) Ambiguous Images: Gender and Rock Art. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    M3/7 Portable ArtTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Lesure, R. G. (1997) "Figurines and Social Identities in Early Sedentary Societies of Coastal Chiapas, Mexico, 1550-800 b.c." In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by C. Claassen and R. A. Joyce, pp. 227-248. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Brumfiel, E. M. (1997) "Figurines and the Aztec State: Testing the Effectiveness of Ideological Domination." In Gender and Archaeology, edited by R. P. Wright, pp. . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
      • Hamann, B. (1997) "Weaving and the Iconography of Prestige: The Royal Gender Symbolism of Lord 5 Flower's/Lady 4 Rabbit's Family." In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by C. Claassen and R. A. Joyce, pp. 153-172. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
      • Hegmon, M., and W. R. Trevathan (1996) Gender, Anatomical Knowledge, and Pottery Production: Implications of an Anatomically Unusual Birth Depicted on Mimbres Pottery from Southwestern New Mexico. American Antiquity 62:437-448.
    W3/9 SubsistenceTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Williams, M. B., and J. Bendremer (1997) "The Archaeology of Maize, Pots, and Seashells: Gender Dynamics in Late Woodland and Contact-Period New England." In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by C. Claassen and R. A. Joyce, pp. 136-149. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Brumbach, H. J., and R. Jarvenpa (1997) "Woman the Hunter: Ethnoarchaeological Lessons from Chipewyan Life-Cycle Dynamics." In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by C. Claassen and R. A. Joyce, pp. 17-32. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
    F3/11 Spring BreakTOP
    M3/21 Divisions of LaborTOP
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Barich, B. (1998) "Social Variability Among Holocene Saharan Groups: How to Recognize Gender." In Gender in African Prehistory, edited by S. Kent, pp. 105-114. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
      • Hamlin, C. (2001) "Sharing the Load: Gender and Task Division at the Windover Site." In Gender and the Archaeology of Death, edited by B. Arnold and N. L. Wicker, pp. 119-135. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
      • Maclean, R. (1998) "Gendered Technologies and Gendered Activities in the Interlacustrine Early Iron Age." In Gender in African Prehistory, edited by S. Kent, pp. 163-177. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
      • Thomas, L. A. (2001) "The Gender Division of Labor in Mississippian Households: Its Role in Shaping Production for Exchange." In Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States, edited by J. M. Eastman and C. B. Rodning, pp. . University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
    W3/23 Hunting and GatheringTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Szuter, C. S. (2001) "Gender and Animals: Hunting Technology, Ritual, and Subsistence." In Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige, edited by P. L. Crown, pp. 197-220. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Casey, J. (1998) "Just a Formality: The Presence of Fancy Projectile Points in a Basic Tool Assemblage." In Gender in African Prehistory, edited by S. Kent, pp. 83-103. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    F3/25 ForagingTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Fish, S. K. (2001) "Farming, Foraging, and Gender." In Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige, edited by P. L. Crown, pp. 169-196. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Claassen, C. (1986) Shellfishing Seasons in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States. American Antiquity 51:21-37.
      • Claassen, C. (1991) "Gender, Shellfishing, and the Shell Mound Archaic." In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by J. M. Gero and M. W. Conkey, pp. 276-300. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
      • Moss, M. L. (1993) Shellfish, Gender, and Status on the Northwest Coast: Reconciling Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Ethnohistorical Records of the Tlingit. American Anthropologist 95:631-652.
      • Waselkov, G. A. (1987) Shellfish Gathering and Shell Midden Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 11:93-210.
    M3/28 FarmingTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Koehler, L. (1997) "Earth Mothers, Warriors, Horticulturalists, Artists, and Chiefs: Women Among the Mississippian and Mississippian-Oneota Peoples, AD 1211-1750. In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by C. Claassen and R. A. Joyce, pp. 211-226. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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    W3/30 Herding [second article summary due]TOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Segobye, A. (1998) "Daughters of Cattle: The Significance of Herding in the Growth of Complex Societies in Southern Africa Between the 10th and 15th centuries AD." In Gender in African Prehistory, edited by S. Kent, pp. 227-233. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Gifford-Gonzalez, D. (1998) "Gender and Early Pastoralists in East Africa." In Gender in African Prehistory, edited by S. Kent, pp. 115-137. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    F4/1 FoodwaysTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Crown, P. L. (2001) "Gendered Tasks, Power, and Prestige in the Prehispanic American Southwest." In Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige, edited by P. L. Crown, pp. 3-41. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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    M4/4 FeastingTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Hastorf, C. A. (1991) "Gender, Space, and Food in Prehistory." In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by J. M. Gero and M. W. Conkey, pp. 132-159. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Gero, J. M. (1992) Feasts and Females: Gender Ideology and Political Meals in the Andes. Norwegian Archaeological Review 25:15-30.
      • Graslund, A.-S. (2001) "The Position of Iron Age Scandinavian Women: Evidence from Graves and Rune Stones." In Gender and the Archaeology of Death, edited by B. Arnold and N. L. Wicker, pp. 81-102. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
      • O'Gorman, J. A. (2001) "Life, Death, and the Longhouse: A Gendered View of Oneota Social Organization." In Gender and the Archaeology of Death, edited by B. Arnold and N. L. Wicker, pp. 23-49. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    W4/6 Rites of PassageTOP
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • O'Gorman, J. A. (2001) "Life, Death, and the Longhouse: A Gendered View of Oneota Social Organization." In Gender and the Archaeology of Death, edited by B. Arnold and N. L. Wicker, pp. 23-49. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    F4/8 DeathTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Wilson, D. (1997) "Gender, Diet, Health and Social Status in the Mississippian Powers Phase Turner Cemetery Population." In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by C. Claassen and R. A. Joyce, pp. 119-135. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Crass, B. J. (2000) "Gender in Inuit Burial Practices." In Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record, edited by A. E. Rautman, pp. . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
      • Crass, B. A. (2001) "Gender and Mortuary Analysis: What Can Grave Goods Really Tell Us?" In Gender and the Archaeology of Death, edited by B. Arnold and N. L. Wicker, pp. 105-118. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
      • Doucette, D. L. (2001) "Decoding the Gender Bias: Inferences of Atlatls in Female Mortuary Contexts." In Gender and the Archaeology of Death, edited by B. Arnold and N. L. Wicker, pp. 159-177. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
      • Stalsberg, A. (2001) "Visible Women Made Invisible: Interpreting Varangian Women in Old Russia." In Gender and the Archaeology of Death, edited by B. Arnold and N. L. Wicker, pp. 65-79. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    M4/11 Health StatusTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Hollimon, S. E. (2000) "Sex, Health, and Gender Roles Among the Arikara of the Northern Plains." In Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record, edited by A. E. Rautman, pp. 25-37. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Lambert, P. M. (2000)
      • Lambert, P. M. (2001) "Auditory Exostoses: A Clue to Gender in Prehistoric and Historic Farming Communities of North Carolina and Virginia." In Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States, edited by J. M. Eastman and C. B. Rodning, pp. . University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
      • Martin, D. L. (2001) "Bodies and Lives: Biological Indicators of Health Differentials and Division of Labor by Sex." In Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige, edited by P. L. Crown, pp. 267-300. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
      • Reeves, M. E. (2000)
    W4/13 Mortuary RitualTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Sullivan, L. P. (2001) "Those Men in the Mounds: Gender, Politics, and Mortuary Practices in Late Prehistoric Eastern Tennessee." In Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States, edited by J. M. Eastman and C. B. Rodning, pp. 101-126. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Dommasnes, L. H. (1982) Late Iron Age in Western Norway: Female Roles and Ranks as Deduced from the Analysis of Burial Customs. Norwegian Archaeological Review 15:70-84.
      • Dommasnes, L. H. (1992) Two Decades of Women in Prehistory and in Archaeology in Norway: A Review. Norwegian Archaeological Review 25:1-14.
      • Sorenson, M. L. S. (1992) Gender Archaeology and Scandinavian Bronze Age Studies. Norwegian Archaeological Review 25:31-49.
    F4/15 Monuments [third article summary due]TOP
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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    M4/18 Gender and SpaceTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Hegmon, M., S. G. Ortman, and J. L. Mobley-Tanaka (2001) "Women, Men, and the Organization of Space." In Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige, edited by P. L. Crown, pp. 43-90. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Sweely, T. L. (1999) "Gender, Space, People, and Power at Ceren, El Salvador." In Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology, edited by T. L. Sweely, pp. 155-171. Routledge, London.
    W4/20 Gender and ArchitectureTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Lane, P. (1998) "Engendered Spaces and Bodily Practices in the Iron Age of Southern Africa." In Gender in African Prehistory, edited by S. Kent, pp. 179-203. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Tringham, R. E. (1991) "Households with Faces: The Challenge of Gender in Prehistoric Architectural Remains." In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by J. M. Gero and M. W. Conkey, pp. 93-131. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
    F4/22 Crafting Material Culture [hand in term paper]TOP
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Wright, R. P. (1991) "Women's Labor and Pottery Production in Prehistory." In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by J. M. Gero and M. W. Conkey, pp. 194-223. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
    M4/25 Craft SpecializationTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Mills, B. J. (2001) "Gender, Craft Production, and Inequality." In Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige, edited by P. L. Crown, pp. 301-343. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Brumfiel, E. M. (1991) "Weaving and Cooking: Women's Production in Aztec Mexico." In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by J. M. Gero and M. W. Conkey, pp. 224-251. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
    W4/27 Writing About GenderTOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Schmidt, P. (1998) "Reading Gender in the Ancient Technology of Africa." In Gender in African Prehistory, edited by S. Kent, pp. 139-162. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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    F4/29 What Else Is There to Learn About Gender in Past Societies?TOP
    • REQUIRED READING
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      • Moss, M. (1993) Shellfish, Gender, and Status on the Northwest Coast: Reconciling Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Ethnohistorical Records of the Tlingit. American Anthropologist 95:631-652.
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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    M5/2 Ethnographic Analogy and InterpretationTOP
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Jackson, T. L. (1991) "Pounding Acorn: Women's Production as Social and Economic Focus." In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by J. M. Gero and M. W. Conkey, pp. 301-325. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
      • Watson, P. J., and M. Kennedy (1991) "Development of Horticulture in the Eastern Woodlands of North America: Women's Role." In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by J. M. Gero and M. W. Conkey, pp. 255-275. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
    W5/4 Gender as Social PhenomenonTOP
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Gero, J. M. (1991) "Genderlithics: Women's Toles in Stone Tool Production." In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by J. M. Gero and M. W. Conkey, pp. 163-193. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
      • Pollock, S., and R. Bernbeck (2000) "And They Said, Let Us Make Gods in Our Image: Gendered Ideologies in Ancient Mesopotamia." In Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record, edited by A. E. Rautman, pp. 150-164. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
    F5/6 Course ReviewTOP
    • RECOMMENDED READING
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      • Conkey, M. W., and J. D. Spector (1984) The Archaeological Study of Gender. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 7:1-38.
      • Crown, P. L., and S. K. Fish (1996) Gender and Status in the Hohokam Preclassic to Classic Transition. American Anthropologist 98:803-817.

 


GRADES

Students will earn points towards final grades for this course throughout the semester, according to their performance on writing assignments, and through class participation. Final grades are determined as follows.

Semester grade scores are determined by:

  • class participation 20%
  • quiz 5%
  • preliminary paper topic 5%
  • article summaries 30%
  • term paper 20%
  • final exam 20%

Letter grades are derived as follows:

  • A = >94
  • A- = 90-94
  • B+ = 87-89
  • B = 84-86
  • B- = 80-83
  • C+ = 77-79
  • C = 74-76
  • C- = 70-73
  • D = 60-69
  • F = <60


POLICIES

Students are encouraged to participate actively in class discussions and are expected to respect the thoughts and opinions shared by others taking this course. Take advantage of your chances to read, to write, to reflect, and to learn in this and other courses. Attendance is mandatory, students are expected to attend and to participate in every scheduled class meeting, reading and writing assignments should be completed by the date for which they are assigned, and the quiz and final exam must be taken as scheduled. Each student may be absent from three classes, after which points will be deducted from the class participation component of his or her course grade.

Cheating on exams, plagiarism of written material, and other forms of academic misconduct are strictly forbidden and will lead to disciplinary action, and academic misconduct by a student may result in a failing grade for this course. Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with OU's academic misconduct code and OU's standards of student academic integrity. The Online Learning Resource Center at OU offers helpful writing tips on its web page as well as specific guidance about issues relating to plagiarism.

Students are welcome to study with each other and to talk about course material, but exams and writing assignments must reflect individual thought and effort.

Students are welcome to, and encouraged to, get help from the Writing Center. They may also consult the web pages maintained by the Online Learning Resource Center.


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Chris Rodning University of Oklahoma Department of Anthropology 10 March 2005