Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Figures and tables; Chapter 1 Introduction: Configuring identities in archaeology; Part I. General perspectives, ethnicity, and nationalism; An introduction; Chapter 2 Archaeologies of identity; Chapter 3 Discourses of identity in the interpretation of the past; Chapter 4 The politics of identity in archaeology; Part II. Gender and age; An introduction; Chapter 5 Girling the girl and boying the boy: The production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica; Chapter 6 Engendering children, engendering archaeologyChapter 7 The constitution of archaeological evidence: Gender politics and sciencePart III. Sexuality; An introduction; Chapter 8 Feminisms, queer theories, and the archaeological study of past sexualities; Chapter 9 Faience goddesses and ivory bull-leapers: The aesthetics of sexual difference at Late Bronze Age Knossos; Chapter 10 Beyond Mother Earth and Father Sky: Sex and gender in Ancient Southwestern visual arts and ethnography; Part IV. The body; An introduction; Chapter 11 Accessing the inaccessible: Disability and archaeologyChapter 12 Hidden or overlooked? Where are the disadvantaged in the skeletal record?Chapter 13 Archaeology's humanism and the materiality of the body; Part V. Class, caste, ideology, and religion; An introduction; Chapter 14 Archaeology and the invisible man: The role of slavery in the production of wealth and social class in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, 1820 to 1870; Chapter 15 The archaeological visibility of caste: An introduction; Chapter 16 Huitzilopochtli's conquest: Aztec ideology in the archaeological recordChapter 17 Ritual and rationality: Some problems of interpretation in European archaeologyChapter 18 Changing identities in the Arabian Gulf: Archaeology, religion, and ethnicity in context; Index