Ross,

Please send me your pre-registration form as soon as you can. My address is:
P.O. Box 120
N. Conway, N.H, 03860

I think you might want to modify your abstract slightly to emphasize
the need to consider temporal change in gender systems of cultural
subgroups. You might want to de-emphasize your critique of treating
women as an homogeneous category in Spanish colonial hist. arch.
because starting in 1983 I think Kathy Deagan considered the gender
relationships between Indian or metis or elite Spanish women and
their Spanish husbands. I think she did consider class and ethnicity
differences among women, as I recall. Are you thinking of someone's
work in particular that you are critiquing? If so you may have to
make that clear to avoid being called inaccurate. Please let me know
what you think!
Suzanne


>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.