The book,Gender and Chinese Archaeology,is a monograph devoted to analytical studies of gender determinations in ancient China.Gender is an essential societal definition of society,and if females were forgotten in his...The book,Gender and Chinese Archaeology,is a monograph devoted to analytical studies of gender determinations in ancient China.Gender is an essential societal definition of society,and if females were forgotten in history or archaeological data were interpreted only from the angle of the male,our knowledge of ancient society and the reconstruction of history would be fragmentary.Information regarding sex and gender in an ancient society can be drawn from archaeological materials,such as tombs where sex has been identified scientifically,from study of funerary objects,and from artistic works that depict males and females.Historical texts can also supplement this sort of analysis,if they are used with an understanding that they were influenced by the authors’ individual intention and inherent ideology in the contemporary society.The papers in this book use these sources and discuss mortuary remains dating from the Neolithic through the Han.展开更多
文摘The book,Gender and Chinese Archaeology,is a monograph devoted to analytical studies of gender determinations in ancient China.Gender is an essential societal definition of society,and if females were forgotten in history or archaeological data were interpreted only from the angle of the male,our knowledge of ancient society and the reconstruction of history would be fragmentary.Information regarding sex and gender in an ancient society can be drawn from archaeological materials,such as tombs where sex has been identified scientifically,from study of funerary objects,and from artistic works that depict males and females.Historical texts can also supplement this sort of analysis,if they are used with an understanding that they were influenced by the authors’ individual intention and inherent ideology in the contemporary society.The papers in this book use these sources and discuss mortuary remains dating from the Neolithic through the Han.
