Gender Hierarchies
Date
Jan 1-10, 1987Organized by
Barbara D. MillerLocation
Hotel Mijas, Mijas, SpainPublications
Sex and Gender Hierarchies (Barbara Diane Miller, Ed.), Cambridge University Press, 1993.Participants
- Gerald Berreman University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Caroline Bledsoe Northwestern University, USA
- Mark Cohen State University of New York, Plattsburgh, USA
- Elizabeth Colson University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Sarah Franklin. Birmingham Center for Cultural Studies, UK
- Marvin Harris University of Florida, USA
- Brigitta Hauser-Schaublin Basel University, Switzerland
- Gilbert Herdt University of Chicago, USA
- Eleanor Leacock City College, New York, USA
- Maxine L. Margolis University of Florida, USA
- Barbara D. Miller Syracuse University, USA
- Sarah Nelson University of Denver, USA
- Lita Osmundsen Wenner-Gren Foundation, USA
- Elinor Ochs University of Southern California, USA
- Rayna Rapp New School for Social Research, USA
- Sydel Silverman Wenner-Gren Foundation, USA
- Melford Spiro University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
- Patricia Wright Duke University, USA
- Adrienne Zihlman University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
ORGANIZER’S STATEMENT: How hierarchical structures based on sex and gender evolve and are maintained is an emerging central question of anthropological discourse in the study of both nonhuman primate and human societies, of cultures both past and present, and of diverse regions of the world. This conference brought together scholars doing research on gender in all the major subdisciplines of anthropology-in physical/biological, archeological/prehistory, social/cultural and symbolic/linguistic studies. The challenge was to discuss common findings, to make theoretical connections among these diverse types of research, and to identify questions that will help to integrate these bodies of research. Papers addressed a variety of topics, including: hierarchies in human evolution as revealed by the fossil record, hierarchies among primates, gender inequalities in state formation, nutritional and demographic variables in the maintenance of dominance, symbolic representations of power, and the use of language to reinforce hierarchical structures.
Wenner-Gren Symposium #103
