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Folktales and Masculinity: Gender Performance at a Southern California Homestead (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Oral traditions of folktales encourage the reproduction of appropriate social behavior. Through migration and immigration, these cultural properties were adapted to accommodate different locations and values, including gender norms as they changed over time. This paper explores how folktales can be used as an interpretive tool for...