How I Built My House. An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Gendered Technical Practice in Tigray, Ethiopia

Author(s): Diane E Lyons

Year: 2009

Summary

In northern Ethiopia, men and women build houses together but they use different building techniques to do so. These gendered technical practices are used in other gendered tasks that are concentrated in different but overlapping spatial realms, where men and women perform daily activities. It is proposed that gendered technical practice constitutes identities and relationships by creating a gendered material world that makes sense of who makes what, where, when, and how.

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How I Built My House. An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Gendered Technical Practice in Tigray, Ethiopia. Diane E Lyons. Ethnoarchaeology. Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Experimental Studies. 1 (2): 137-162. 2009 ( tDAR id: 423190)

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Keywords

Temporal Keywords
Newest Era

Spatial Coverage

min long: 32.992; min lat: 3.409 ; max long: 47.988; max lat: 14.884 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): EXARC Experimental Archaeology Collection Manager

Record Identifiers

ExArc Id(s): 9980

Notes

Rights & Attribution: The information in this record was originally compiled by Dr. Roeland Paardekooper, EXARC Director.