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Angela E. Close
ARCHY 402
Seattle Campus
Examines case studies in prehistoric archaeological record for intersections of socially constructed differences including age, gender, and class. Contrasts past perceptions of difference with projection of modern differences backward to validate the present. Prerequisite: ARCHY 205; either ARCHY 105, ARCHY 303, or ARCHY 401.
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Begins with theoretical basis of socially constructed difference (gender, age class) and how we might identify past social identities. From pre-human to various stages of human socio-economic development (foragers, food-producers, mid-level societies, "Complex societies), we will try to identify gender, age and class as they were perceived then, not as we perceive them now. Using the archaeological record, we study what people did, as opposed to what they might have said they were doing. Finally moving beyond the dichotomies of modern thought.
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