Janet D. Spector

Janet D. Spector (October 21, 1944 – September 13, 2011) was an American archaeologist. She is known for her contributions to the archaeology of gender and ethnoarchaeology.[1][2] She is the author of What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village,[3] a book which combines Spector's autobiography with the excavation of the Little Rapids site (also known as Inyan Ceyaka Otonwe) in Scott County, Minnesota and a fictional story of a young Dakota woman who lived in the village. While a professor at the University of Minnesota, Spector helped found the women's studies program at the university, and chaired the program from 1981 to 1984[4]

Selected publications
  • J.D. Spector 1993. What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village. Minnesota Historical Society Press.
  • J.D Spector and M.K. Whelan 1989. Incorporating gender into archaeology courses. In Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching, ed. Sandra Morgen (Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association, 1989), pp. 65–94.
  • M.W. Conkey and J.D. Spector. 1984. Archaeology and the study of gender. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 7: 1–38
  • J.D. Spector 1983. Male/ Female Task Differentiation Among the Hidatsa: toward the development of an archaeological approach to the study of gender. In P. Albers and B. Medicine.The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Indian Women.
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References
  1. 10,000 Books Weblog : Minnesota Historical Society Press » Janet D. Spector (1944–2011), In Memoriam
  2. Thomas, David Hurst and Robert L. Kelly (2006). Archaeology. Thomson Wadsworth. ISBN 0-15-505899-1.
  3. Spector, Janet (1993). What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village. Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN 0-87351-277-4.
  4. "Janet Spector has died – College of Liberal Arts E-News". Archived from the original on 2012-09-30. Retrieved 2012-09-25.


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