REVIEW: Native American Landscapes: An Engendered Perspective. CHERYL CLAASSEN,, editor. 2016. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. xxxv + 299 pp. $74.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-6219-0253-9 .

Native American Landscapes: An Engendered Perspective. CHERYL CLAASSEN, editor. 2016. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. xxxv + 299 pp. $74.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-6219-0253-9.

Since its appearance in American archaeological literature in the early 1990s, “landscape” as a theoretical perspective has sustained widespread adoption. However, like other theoretical frameworks with broad applicability across geographic, temporal, and cultural contexts, interpretations of landscape can mask variation as much as they can illuminate and explain it. To this end, editor Cheryl Claassen has assembled a geographically diverse array of essays addressing how explorations of gender can inform and enhance interpretations of Native American landscapes. Across an introductory chapter and nine chapters grouped into three regions (Cumberland and Ozark Plateaus, the Plains, and the Gulf Coast [Mayan] and western United States), these authors open up the black box of landscape theory by considering how different social groups, past and present people, linguists and their informants, and, yes, members of different gender groups view and perceive and experience landscapes differently.

Claassen's introduction sets the stage for the volume by framing some of the central issues addressed in the following chapters. The overarching theme is that landscapes were (and are) multivocal...