Material culture, the substance of much archaeological research, has only recently been studied as evidence of gender relations. Case studies, drawn from many d

Case studies drawn from many different periods and areas develop concepts and theories as diverse as the social contexts of production and artifact.

Gender and Material Culture is the first complete study in the archaeology of gender, exploring the differences between the religious life of men and women. Gen

Material culture is not a subject which has to date attracted much attention from historians, whose usual source material is the written word. This volume shows

This interdisciplinary volume discusses the division of the early modern material world into the important legal, economic, and personal categories of mobile an