Gender and Material Culture
Download or Read eBook Gender and Material Culture PDF written by Roberta Gilchrist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Roberta Gilchrist |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2013-05-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781134730629 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1134730624 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Gender and Material Culture by : Roberta Gilchrist
Book excerpt: Gender and Material Culture is the first complete study in the archaeology of gender, exploring the differences between the religious life of men and women. Gender in medieval monasticism influenced landscape contexts and strategies of economic management, the form and development of buildings and their symbolic and iconographic content. Women's religious experience was often poorly documented, but their archaeology indicates a shared tradition which was closely linked with, and valued by local communities. The distinctive patterns observed suggest that gender is essential to archaeological analysis.
