Rita P. Wright
Encyclopedia
Rita P. Wright is an American anthropologist, and professor at New York University
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She graduated from Wellesley College, with a B.A. in 1975, and from Harvard University
with an M.A. in 1978 and Ph.D. in 1984.
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
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She graduated from Wellesley College, with a B.A. in 1975, and from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
with an M.A. in 1978 and Ph.D. in 1984.
Works
- The Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy and Society, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780521576529
- "Third Millennium Changing Times" (2009) - Archaeological Dialogues 16(2):142-148.
- "Gendered relations" in Ur III Dynasty: Kinship, Property and Labor". Gender through Time. Editor Diane R. Bolger, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, ISBN 9780759110922
- "Exploring Unknown Lands and Bringing New Worlds into Gender Studies", Are all warriors male?: gender roles on the ancient Eurasian Steppe, Editors Katheryn M. Linduff, Karen Sydney Rubinson, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, ISBN 9780759110748
- Water Supply and History: Harappa and the Beas Settlement Survey (2008). Co-authoried, R. Wright, R. Bryson and J. Schuldenrein. Antiquity, Vol. 82, 315:37-48.
- "Gender Matters -- A Question of Ethics", Ethical issues in archaeology, Editors Larry J. Zimmerman, Karen D. Vitelli, Julie Hollowell-Zimmer, Rowman Altamira, 2003, ISBN 9780759102712
- "Prehistory of Urbanism" (2002) - Encyclopedia of Urbanism, M. and C. Ember, ed., Grolier Press.
- Craft and Social Identity (1998) (with Cathy L. Costin, eds.). Washington D.C. American Anthropological Association, Archaeology Division Monograph 8.
- Gender and Archaeology, Editor Rita P. Wright, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996, ISBN 9780812215748
- "Women's Labor and Pottery Production in Prehistory", Engendering archaeology: women and prehistory, Editors Joan M. Gero, Margaret Wright Conkey, Wiley-Blackwell, 1991, ISBN 9780631175018