Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1. Women and Gender in the Ancient Maya World Chapter 3 2. Gender and Mayan Farming: Chan Noohol, Belize Chapter 4 3. Gender Divisions of Labor and Lowland Terrace Agriculture Chapter 5 4. Spindle Whorls: Household Specialization at Ceren Chapter 6 5. Death Became Her: Imagery of Female Power from Yaxuna Burials Chapter 7 6. Engendering a Dynasty: A Royal Woman in the Margarita Tomb, Copan Chapter 8 7. Lady K'awil, Goddess O, and Maya Warfare Chapter 9 8. Women in Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Texts Chapter 10 9. Women in the Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of Chichen Itza Chapter 11 10. Women-Men (and Men-Women): Classic Maya Rulers and the Third Gender Chapter 12 11. Representations of Women in Postclassic and Colonial Maya Literature and Art Chapter 13 12. Encountering Maya Women Chapter 14 Index Chapter 15 About the Authors
Traci Ardren is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami. She codirects the Pakbeh Regional Economy Project centered at the ancient Maya trading city of Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico. Her research has focused on gender, iconography, architecture and other forms of symbolic representation in the archaeological record.
Deftly edited by Traci Ardren, Ancient Maya Women is a fascinating
compilation... A very highly recommended compilation of amazing
discoveries and extrapolations of a long-ago culture—and an
essential, seminal, core addition to Mayan Studies academic
reference collections.
*Midwest Book Review*
With a foreword from the eminent ethnographer, June Nash, and a
broad concluding essay by W. Ashmore, Dr. Ardren introduces 10
thematic essays and case studies of archaeological, epigraphic and
historical evidence for women's work and symbolic roles in the
prehispanic period (with one paper venturing into the Colonial
period too). Much of the evidence is from aristocratic contexts but
four of the papers deal with domestic, agricultural and funerary
evidence for ordinary people.
*Antiquity*
This volume provides a multidimensional view of women's activities
and identities, based on diverse theoretical and methodological
approaches that address severe gaps in our knowledge and inspire
new questions.
*Journal of Anthropological Research*
At a time when social anthropologists are tending to abandon
ethnographic criteria of objectivity and scope of sampling, these
papers remind us of the importance of quantitative evidence and
repetitive observations in favor of, as well as a supplement to,
imaginative interpretations…. It is a welcome addition to feminist
studies in critiquing androcentric assumptions that guided both the
creators of texts, imagery, and sculpture, as well as
ethnohistorical and ethnographic observers over the five hundred
years of contact and assimilation.
*June C. Nash, CUNY*
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