Great abstract, Ross! Are you a member of SHA and if so can you send
me the paper proposal form by snailmail ASAP?

My address:

P.O. Box 120
N. Conway N.H. 03860
USA


>Suzanne,
>
>I would very much like to be included in your symposium on feminist
>archaeologies and gender roles at the Long Beach SHA meetings.  Here is
>an abstract of my proposed paper.  I am currently a post-doc in the
>Anthropology Department at Trent University, but will be moving to Simon
>Fraser University in September.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Ross W. Jamieson
>32 Barrette St.
>Vanier, Ontario
>Canada  K1L 8A5
>tel. (613) 747-3887
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>Gender Roles in the Spanish Colonial New World: A Re-evaluation
>Ross W. Jamieson, Simon Fraser University
>
>Over the past 25 years both archaeologists and social historians who
>study the Spanish New World colonies have reshaped our views of gender
>roles in the colonial period, and how these relate to domestic material
>culture.  There is great interest in the role of women at the
>intersection of household, ethnic, and class relations.  Issues of
>social conservatism, acculturation, and public vs. private space have
>all played a role in our definition of female colonial roles.  Rather
>than looking at women as a single, undifferentiated category, I will
>instead examine ideas of power relations and historical agency to
>suggest that archaeologists look more closely at the significance of
>gender to the construction of reality in Spanish colonial society, and
>how this changed over the course of the colonial period.