Gender in Pre-Hispanic America

Cecelia F. Klein, Editor

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Preface

CECELIA F. KLEIN Introduction

JOAN M. GERO
Field Knots and Ceramic Beaus: Interpreting Gender in the Peruvian Early Intermediate Period

ELIZABETH M. BRUMFIEL
Asking about Aztec Gender: The Historical and Archaeological Evidence

LOUISE M. BURKHART
Gender in Nahuatl Texts of the Early Colonial Period: Native "Tradition" and the Dialogue with Christianity

ROSEMARY A. JOYCE
Negotiating Sex and Gender in Classic Maya Society

CAROLYN DEAN
Andean Androgyny and the Making of Men

CECELIA F. KLEIN
None of the Above: Gender Ambiguity in Nahua Ideology

MARI CARMEN SERRA PUCHE
The Concept of Feminine Places in Mesoamerica: The Case of Xochitécatl, Tlaxcala, Mexico

JOHN MONAGHAN
Physiology, Production, and Gendered Difference: The Evidence from Mixtec and Other Mesoamerican Societies

JOYCE MARCUS
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: The Strategies of Royal Women in Ancient States

MARGARET W. CONKEY
Epilogue: Thinking about Gender with Theory and Method

CECELIA F. KLEIN
Conclusions: Envisioning Pre-Columbian Gender Studies

INDEX