Intimate Relations; World Archaeology (World Archaeology , Vol 29, No 3)

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Intimate Relations; World Archaeology (World Archaeology , Vol 29, No 3)

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This groundbreaking issue of World Archaeology explores the invisible bonds that constitute a society--including familial, sexual, spiritual, community-based and work-based relationships that have left their traces in archaeological records in North America, Greece, El Salvador, Japan, Egypt, Cameroon and other places around the globe.

Selected contents: Intimate relations with the past: the story of an Athapaskan village on the southern Northwest Coast of North America; Witchcraft, gender, power and intimate relations in Mura compounds in Dela, northern Cameroon; Intimate archaeologies: the case of Kha and Merit; Women, children and the family in the late Aegean Bronze Age: differences in Minoan and Mycenaean constructions of gender; Intimate sexual relations in prehistory: lessons from the Japanese macaques and more.

Intimate Relations (World Archaeology , Vol 29, No 3),Y. Marshall,Routledge,0415184304,Anthropology - General,Archaeology,Archaeology / Anthropology,Social Science,Sociology,World - General,Social Science / Archaeology,Social history

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