GENDER AND THE REORGANIZATION OF HISTORIC ZUNI CRAFT PRODUCTION - IMPLICATIONS FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION

Over the past century, there has been a dramatic reorganization of cra ft production at Zuni Pueblo, including a change from a gender-specifi c economic system to one in which gender is less of an organizational principle. Concurrently changes in learning contexts resource acquisit ion, labor scheduling, Production scale, product demand and, ultimatel y the finished products have occurred. The interrelationships among th ese variables are discussed, and the reorganization of production is p laced within the context of broader changes in Zuni ecology and politi cal economy. Archaeological implications drawn from the historic Zuni case study include: (1) the diversity of products and production scale s that may co-occur within a gender-specific economic system (2) the m aterial correlates of changes in gendered systems of production; and ( 3) the interrelationships of changes in nonsubsistence and subsistence production.