Klein, Cecilia F. (ed.). Gender in Pre-Hispanic America.(Book Review)

From: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: Dransart, Penelope | Copyright information

viii, 397 pp., map, illus., figs., bibliogrs. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Publications, 2001. $40.00 (cloth)

This volume, the outcome of an interdisciplinary symposium held at Dumbarton Oaks in 1996, contains papers from art historians, archaeologists, of whom one is also an epigrapher, an historian, and a 'sociocultural anthropologist'.

Gero explores methodological issues concerning interpretation. She argues cogently that archaeological data and iconograp...

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