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Manifesting Power

Manifesting Power confronts the relationship between gender and power within

prehistoric and historic societies. It addresses the extent to which our

preconceptions of the nature of power, and of relations between the sexes, are

rooted in our own experience of Western society, and argues that both conditions

and perceptions may have been quite different among peoples of the past.

This collection comprises eleven innovative, diverse chapters which draw on

data from a range of periods and areas. By looking at the evidence for gender

distinctions both from archaeological sites and from ethnographic observation,

the contributors explore what these distinctions can reveal about power

relationships more generally. They reveal that the evidence frequently does not

point to the existence of hierarchical gender relationships, and explore forms of

power which seem to have been exercised by prehistoric women among the Maya

and Aztec, and those of the Southeastern United States, Denmark and Alaska.

Manifesting Power will be of great interest to students of archaeology,

anthropology, power, and gender studies.

Tracy L.Sweely has conducted research in archaeology and anthropology at the

University of Colorado at Boulder. She continues to study social phenomena

and currently works in cultural resources management.

Manifesting Power

Gender and the interpretation of power in

archaeology

Edited by Tracy L.Sweely

London and New York

First published 1999

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

the contributors

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter

invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any

information storage or retrieval system, without permission in

writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

Manifesting power: gender and the interpretation of power in

archaeology/edited by Tracy Sweely.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-415-17179-2.—ISBN 0-415-19744-9 (pbk.)

1. Social archaeology. 2. Ethnoarchaeology. 3. Power (Social

sciences) 4. Sex role. 5. Sexual division of labor. 6. Indian

women—Social conditions. 7. Women, Prehistoric—Social conditions.

I. Sweely, Tracy, 1966– .

CC72.4.M36 1999

305.42

097–dc21

98–39602

CIP

ISBN 0-203-16521-7 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-25961-0 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-17179-2 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-19744-9 (pbk)

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