Social Construction of the Past; Representation as Power (One World Archaeology)

Social Construction of the Past; Representation as Power (One World Archaeology)

Editorial Reviews
American Anthropologist Sep, 1998
"...a useful and informative set of state-of-the-art papers on the role of the past in the present." --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

Book Description

Social Construction of the Past examines labor, race and gender and their relationship to power and class. It includes chapters on a broad range of topics, from the role of intellectuals in restructuring a non-apartheid South Africa and the way Haitian working-class women use sexuality to resist domination to how American archaeologists have created a gendered view of early humans.

Contributors: Martin Bernal, George Bond, Penn Davidson Buck, Carolle Charles, Thomas B.F. Cummins, Joan M. Gero, Angela Gilliam, Martin Hall, Leith Mullings, Alcida Ramos, Nandini Rao, Jaonne Rappaport, Michael Rowlands, William A. Shack, Mala Singh, Andrew D. Spiegel and Peter Wade.

Social Construction of the Past; Representation as Power (One World Archaeology)

Social Construction of the Past (One World Archaeology),George C. Bond,Routledge,0415152240,Anthropology - General,Archaeology,Social Science,Sociology,Sociology - General,Women's Studies - General,Anthropology,History: theory & methods,Social Science / Archaeology

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