People have processed hides for mundane, exchange, and ritual items
since the earliest paleolithic cultures, yet the highly gendered nature
of these activities remains obscured in archaeological research. Editors
Lisa Frink and Kathryn Weedman have assembled a collection of diverse
essays that take gender as a central point of orientation in hide
production processes and reflect on their vast geographical and temporal
range, injecting the critical cultural variable of gender into our
archaeological interpretations. Chapters include ethnohistoric and
ethnographic research among mobile and sedentary populations of North
America, the Arctic, and Africa and their applications for understanding
prehistoric, protohistoric, and contact period settings. This text will
prove enlightening to researchers of archaeology, anthropology, and
gender studies, as well as those interested in division of labor
research.