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  • Are All Warriors Male?

    Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe

    by Natalia Berseneva, Bryan Hanks, Deborah Harding, Karlene Jones-Bley, Sophie Legrand, Katheryn Linduff, Sarah Milledge Nelson, Sandra L. Olsen, Karen Rubinson, Gideon Shelach, Rita Wright ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    Are All Warriors Male? is a lively inquiry into questions of gender on the ancient Eurasian steppes. The book's contributors are archaeologists who work in eastern Europe, Central Asia, and eastern Asia, and this volume is the result of their field research in this vast. As little has been written about the evidence of gender roles in ancient-or modern-pastoralist societies, this book helps to ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Archaeological Studies on Gender in Early East Asia

    by Mandy Jui-man Wu, Katheryn M. Linduff ...
    Series series Elements in Ancient East Asia
    Gendered archaeology in Asia has been studied by archaeologists since the 1990s and scholars have posed questions such as the role and construction of gendered identities in ancient societies. In this Element, the authors review secondary literature, report on to what stage the research has evolved, evaluate methodologies, and use the concept of networking to examine the issues across East Asia, ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Ancient Queens

    Archaeological Explorations

    by Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh, Karen Bell, Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Katheryn Linduff, Geoffrey G, Sharrise D. McCafferty, Peggy Reeves Sanday, Lana Troy, Melissa A. Vogel ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    Exploding the traditional myth that view queens as simply an appendage to the king, these essays explore the social and cultural constructions of female power. This volume does more than merely identify and describe queens, but rather, offers its readers an understanding of the roles of these 'dominant women', situated within archaeological discourse that change our assumptions about female-ruled ... Read more

    $51.09 USD

  • Pazyryk Culture Up in the Altai

    by Katheryn M. Linduff, Karen S. Rubinson ...
    This book reconsiders the archaeology of the Pazyryk, the horse-riding people of the Altai Mountains who lived in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE, in light of recent scientific studies and excavations not only in Russia but also Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China, together with new theories of landscape.Excavation of the Pazyryk burials sparked great interest because of their wealth of organic remains, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors

    Artifacts, Identity and Death in the Frontier, 3000–700 BCE

    by Katheryn M. Linduff, Yan Sun, Wei Cao, Yuanqing Liu ...
    This volume examines the role of objects in the region north of early dynastic state centers, at the intersection of Ancient China and Eurasia, a large area that stretches from Xinjiang to the China Sea, from c.3000 BCE to the mid-eighth century BCE. This area was a frontier, an ambiguous space that lay at the margins of direct political control by the metropolitan states, where local and colonial ... Read more

    $121.39 USD

  • Gender and Chinese Archaeology

    Edited by Katheryn M. Linduff, Yan Sun ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    The roles of women in Chinese archaeology, with only a few exceptions, have at worst been overlooked, and at best consigned to conventional Marxist theory that prescribes formulaic frameworks for understanding gender-until now. Renowned archaeologist Katheryn M. Linduff and fellow researcher Yan Sun have brought together a fascinating collection that reexamines gender in ancient Chinese cultures. ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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  • Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History

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  • Archaeology of East Asia

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  • Early China

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    Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE–50 CE

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