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Book chapter
Where Women Work: Taskscapes and Activity Area Analysis
Mississippian Women, pp.171-193
Ripley P. Bullen series, University Press of Florida
06/11/2024
Abstract
Analyses of three Late Mississippian house floors from the Little Egypt site (9Mu102) were undertaken to discern discrete activity areas used by women and men. Areas were identified by seeking patterns of spatially co-occurring artifact types associated with specific activities, activities frequently correlated strongly with a specific gender in cross-cultural ethnological studies. Women’s activities dominated the assemblages and occupied the most space in all three houses. This model of household activity areas mirrors findings across the southern Appalachian region but does little to understand the social aspects of production within multigenerational, matrilineal, and arguably matrifocal households. This chapter is a further consideration of the gendered uses of space through the lens of taskscapes, those arrays of related activities performed by social actors, to interrogate the experiences of being a Mississippian woman in a domestic house.
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- Title
- Where Women Work
- Publication Details
- Mississippian Women, pp.171-193
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Series
- Ripley P. Bullen series
- Copyright
- Copyright 2024 by Rachel V. Briggs, Michaelyn S. Harle, and Lynne P. Sullivan
- Identifiers
- 99380579777606600
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Archaeology Institute
- Language
- English