@article{dcd05f3daff04789b229eaecdf6bcff9,
title = "Studies of gender in the prehispanic Americas",
abstract = "In the past ten years archaeologists have produced a vast literature on the study of gender in the prehispanic New World. This review defines key concepts, identifies three major themes within this tradition - gender in native cosmologies, intersections of gender and the body, and studies of work and specialization - and explores the significant contributions of engendered archaeology to the broader field. Final suggestions for linkages with queer studies and indigenous feminism point the way to where this field might develop productive new avenues of research.",
keywords = "Americas, Gender, Identity, Prehispanic",
author = "Traci Ardren",
note = "Funding Information: paper that greatly improved the final publication. I thank Charlene Levy for introducing me to the field of gender studies, and Marty Ardren for urging me to start reading Ms. magazine when I was about ten years old. I thank Kelley Hays-Gilpin for her astounding bibliographic assistance, Barbara L. Voss for help with references on archaeologists using queer theory, and my research assistant Bryn Elizabeth Hafemeister for her initial research toward the global bibliography. I am profoundly indebted to the work of all the scholars cited here and in the accompanying bibliography. I thank them for their passion and commitment and apologize in advance for any simplification of their arguments I have made for the sake of brevity. This research was supported in part by a James W. McLamore Summer Research Award from the University of Miami.",
year = "2008",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1007/s10814-007-9016-9",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "16",
pages = "1--35",
journal = "Journal of Archaeological Research",
issn = "1059-0161",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "1",
}