Author: Margaret Ehrenberg
Publisher: Mondadori
Year edition:
Format: Paperback
Pages of the printed version: p.
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Starting from the most qualified archaeologists up to the most banal form of mass communications, in our culture we commonly face the world of prehistory by attributing discoveries, inventions, creations as well as behaviors to an elusive "prehistoric man".
Margaret Ehrenberg, an English archaeologist, instead tries to read the roles and status of women and men in classical archaeological finds and in anthropological and ethnographic documentation. The importance of analysis is not limited to discovering theinvention of horticulture and the central role of women in the history of the human economy, but above all it highlights the dialectic of social relations at the dawn of Western civilization while not hiding, in parallel, the relativity of our commonplaces towards other modern cultures.
Margaret Ehrenberg's work, as well as being an original journey through prehistory, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, is also a pleasant example of female science.
Women in Prehistory
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"ocial attitudes in our culture have led to the assumption that early advances in human knowledge were the achievements of men; the role of women in prehistoric times has been largely overlooked. In this thought-provoking book, however, Margaret Ehrenberg argues that the true contribution of women especially in the discovery and development of agriculture was much greater than has been acknowledged to date. Examining the evidence from archaeological, anthropological, and classical documentary sources, Ehrenberg throws new light on the lives of women and their social status in Europe from the Palaeolithic era to the Iron Age.
The relationship between the role of women and economic production is a central theme of this survey. In Bronze Age and Iron Age societies individual women are seen to be in positions of power.
Although available evidence is fragmentary and often controversial, Ehrenberg shows how information can be gathered from skeletons and grave goods found in burials, from settlement sites, from rock carvings and sculpted figurines, as well as from anthropological parallels, to enable significant inferences to be drawn about the life of p
Women in Prehistory
Social attitudes in our culture have led to the assumption that early advances in human knowledge were the achievements of men; the role of women in prehistoric times has been largely overlooked. In this thought-provoking book, however, Margaret Ehrenberg argues that the true contribution of women especially in the discovery and development of agriculture was much greater than has been acknowledged to date. Examining the evidence from archaeological, anthropological, and classical documentary sources, Ehrenberg throws new light on the lives of women and their social status in Europe from the Palaeolithic era to the Iron Age.
The relationship between the role of women and economic production is a central theme of this survey. In Bronze Age and Iron Age societies individual women are seen to be in positions of power.
Although available evidence is fragmentary and often controversial, Ehrenberg shows how information can be gathered from skeletons and grave goods found in burials, from settlement sites, from rock carvings and sculpted figurines, as well as from anthropological parallels, to enable significant inferences to be drawn about the life of prehisto
La Donna nella Preistoria
Autore/i: Ehrenberg Margaret
Editore: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
introduzione dell’autrice, traduzione di Roberto Bosi.
pp. , nn. ill. b/n, Milano
A partire dagli archeologi più qualificati fino ad arrivare alla forma più banale delle comunicazioni di massa, nella nostra cultura si affronta, comunemente, il mondo della Preistoria attribuendo scoperte, invenzioni, creazioni nonché comportamenti, ad un fantomatico &#;uomo preistorico&#;. Margaret Ehrenberg, un’archeologa inglese, tenta invece di leggere nei reperti archeologici classici e nelle documentazioni antropologiche ed etnografiche i ruoli e gli status femminili e maschili. L’importanza dell’analisi non si limita alla scoperta dell’invenzione femminile dell’orticoltura e del ruolo centrale delle donne nella storia dell’economia umana, ma soprattutto mette in luce la dialettica delle relazioni sociali agli albori della civiltà occidentale non nascondendo, parallelamente, la relatività dei nostri luoghi comuni nei confronti di altre culture moderne. L’opera di Margaret Ehrenberg oltre ad essere un viaggio originale nella Preistoria, dal Neolitico all’Età del Ferro, è anche un gradevole esempio d
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