Amanda Adams

Ladies of the Field (eBook, ePUB)

Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first women archaeologists were Victorian era adventurers who felt most at home when farthest from it. Canvas tents were their domains, hot Middle Eastern deserts their gardens of inquiry and labor. Thanks to them, prevailing ideas about feminine nature - soft, nurturing, submissive - were upended. Ladies of the Field tells the story of seven remarkable women, each a pioneering archaeologist, each headstrong, smart, and courageous, who burst into what was then a very young science. Amanda Adams takes us with them as they hack away at underbrush under a blazing sun, battle swarms of biting bugs, travel on camelback for weeks on end, and feel the excitement of unearthing history at an archaeological site. Adams also reveals the dreams of these extraordinary women, their love of the field, their passion for holding the past in their hands, their fascination with human origins, and their utter disregard for convention.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greystone Books
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781553656418
• Artikelnr.: 38323989

Autorenporträt

Amanda Adams is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and holds a master's degree in anthropology from the University of British Columbia. She is the author of one previous work of nonfiction, A Mermaid's Tale: A Personal Search for Love and Lore.

Inhaltsangabe

Field Notes The Nile's Grand Dame Amelia Edwards (1831
1892) Noah's Ark
A good poem by 7
No one to say no
the Dolomites
Lady 'L'
Voyaging on the Nile
Pyramids and other wonders
Abu Simbel
Responding to a threat
Egyptology
The fund
To break a leg
Revelations All Dressed Up in a Man's Suit Jane Dieulafoy (1851
1916) In a man's suit
Tomboy
Meeting Marcel
Being a solider
Partnership
The first excavations
Persia
The Lion Frieze and glory of Susa
Rejection
Paris saloons and a yawn
Down south
Writing about it all
Back to the field
Fever
On being married Mexico's Archaeological Queen Zelia Nuttall (1857
1933) Queening at the table
Gold Rush
A special picture book
Alphonse and Nadine
Terracotta heads
The big fair
Mr. Boas
Casa Alvarado
Lost things
The Island of Sacrificios
Fury
Fame
A return to light Oh, Desert Tiger! Gertrude Bell (1868
1926) Catching the eye of a star
Growing up with gardens
Family matters and letters home
School days
Languages and leaving
The field
Pretty things
Petra
Days melt like snow
(lost) Love
Death and reflections on adventure Just Like a Volcano Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871
1945) Inside a volcano
Athens by bicycle
Nursing
Across the wine dark sea
Digging in Crete
Donkeys at a Trot
Gournia
The Headhunter
Now, the kitchen
Babies & books
A rumbling wake Archaeology's Big Detective Agatha Christie (1890
1976) M is for mystery
Girls? They should run wild
Ashfield
Coming out in Cairo
Mrs. Christie
Around the world
The bad year
Vanished
Orient Express
Meeting Max
Le Camping
Khabur Valley
A detective's eye
Tell me Like a Glass of Stony White Wine Dorothy Garrod (1892
1968) Archaeology's new voice
family of science
three brothers
Abbé Breuil
Human origins
A tiny skull in her hands
Mount Carmel
Sherry Sabbath
Deafening!
Hello Cambridge
Ancient beaches
The Amazons have broken down the gates at last Excavations Glossary Notes Bibliography Recommended Reading Acknowledgments