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Rosemary Joyce (Fig. 1) is a prominent anthropological archaeologist widely known for her work on the archaeology of gender, sexuality, and embodiment, based on visual culture of pre-Columbian Central America. Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1956, she was the sixth of eight children of Thomas Joyce, a steelworker, and Joanne Poth Joyce, a homemaker. Joyce was educated at the Mount Saint Joseph Academy. She received her bachelor’s degree in 1978 from Cornell University and her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985 studying under David Grove. She is married to the ethnohistorian and archaeologist Russell Sheptak, with whom she has collaborated on many research projects.

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Rosemary Joyce (Photo by Russell Sheptak)

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  • Gillespie, S. D., R. A. Joyce & D. L. Nichols. 2003a. Archaeology is anthropology, in S. D. Gillespie & D. L. Nichols (ed.) Archaeology is anthropology (Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 13): 156-69. Arlington: American Anthropological Association.

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  • Gillespie, S. D., D. L. Nichols & D. G. Anderson. (ed.) 2003b. Archaeology is anthropology (Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 13). Arlington: American Anthropological Association.

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  • Joyce, R. A. 1991. Cerro Palenque. Austin: University of Texas Press.

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  • - 1993. Women's work: images of production and reproduction in Prehispanic southern Central America. Current Anthropology 34(3): 255-74.

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  • - 1996. The construction of gender in classic Maya monuments, in R. Wright (ed.) Gender in archaeology: 167-95. University of Pennsylvania Press.

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  • - 1998. Performing the body in Prehispanic Central America. RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 33: 147-65.

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  • - 2008. Ancient bodies, ancient lives. New York: Thames and Hudson.

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Further Reading

  • Claassen, C. & R. J. Joyce. (ed.) 1997. Women in prehistory: North American and Mesoamerica. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

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  • Joyce, R. A. 2000a. Girling the girl and boying the boy: the production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica. World Archaeology 31(3): 473-83.

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  • - 2000b. A Precolumbian gaze: male sexuality among the ancient Maya, in B. Voss & R. Schmidt (ed.) Archaeologies of sexuality: 263-83. London: Routledge Press.

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  • - 2008. Critical histories of archaeological practice, in J. Habu, J. Matsunaga & C. Fawcett (ed.) Evaluating multiple narratives: 56-8. New York: Springer.

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  • Joyce, R. A. & S. D. Gillespie. (ed.) 2000. Beyond kinship. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

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  • Joyce, R. A. & J. A. Hendon. 2000. Heterarchy, history, and material reality, in M.-A. Canuto & J. Yaeger (ed.) The archaeology of communities: 143-59. London: Routledge.

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  • Joyce, R. A. & J. Lopiparo. 2005. Doing agency in archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 12: 365-74.

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  • Joyce, R. A., C. Guyer & M. Joyce. 2000. Sister stories. New York: New York University Press.

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  • Perry, E. M. & R. A. Joyce. 2001. Providing a past for bodies that matter: Judith Butler's impact on the archaeology of gender. International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies 6(1 & 2): 63-76.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Robert W. Preucel

  2. Department of Anthropology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, USA

    Julia A. Hendon

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Preucel, R.W., Hendon, J.A. (2014). Joyce, Rosemary. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1291

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