ANTH-110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Feminist Archaeology, Pearson Education, Johann Jakob Bachofen
4 Aug 2020
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Note: these review questions are not graded but rather are designed to help you pull out the pertinent information in each reading and to reinforce your learning. Brettell, c. b. , & sargent, c. f. (2017). An archaeological focus on gender provides a lens for reassessing modern myths about the past that single out men as the prime movers of cultural change. As some archaeologists seek to reinstate women as agents and as subjects, widely held assumptions about mankind and. Man"s past are challenged by a focus on women"s involvement in production, politics, ritual performance, and the generation of symbol systems in past societies: note some of the areas of study of a feminist-informed archaeology. Myths of past matriarchy exist in both western and nonwestern societies. Nineteenth-century evolutionists such as j. j. bachofen (1967) described a history of humankind that passed from a state of primitive communal marriages, through mother right, or a rule of women, to patriarchy.
