Feasts and females: Gender ideology and political meals in the Andes

1 January 1992

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Norwegian Archaeological Review

Vol. 25 (1) , 15-30
https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.1992.9965542

Abstract

Similarities between two related socio‐historic contexts are used to analyze gender relations in the Early Intermediate Period (EIP) in Perú. Women's traditional roles as preparers and servers of food are described on the basis of archaeological finds from Queyash Alto. Women's participation in ritual political feasts transformed, symbolically defined and publicly affirmed gender relations in ways that were essential to the emergence of political hierarchy in the Andes.

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