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How can we use material traces of past lives to understand sex and gender in the past?
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“The Materiality of Everyday Life”: Commentary
Back from the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, this year held in Memphis. I had been invited to be one of two discussants for a session organized by Cynthia Robin, professor anthropology at Northwestern University, and Lisa Overholtzer, finishing her PhD dissertation there. For me, the pleasure of seeing these colleagues, and […]
Summer kitchens, wives, and the “domestic sphere”
August 2, 2010
Summer in the world of US archaeology means field schools: and so the news about archaeology is dominated by stories from local papers in which broader project goals take a back seat to stereotypes of discovery and treasures. Although one of my purposes in this blog is to critique news coverage of archaeology, taking on […]
April 29, 2012
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