1. Gender, Identities, and Material Culture in the Italic Peninsula: Burial Practices and Loom Weights in Perspective
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Arianna Esposito, Airton Pollini, Archéologie, Terre, Histoire, Sociétés [Dijon] (ARTeHiS), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA)), Archéologie et histoire ancienne : Méditerranée - Europe (ARCHIMEDE), Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Etude des Civilisations de l'Antiquité (UMR 7044), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Marc Bloch - Strasbourg II-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA)), and Desbois-Garcia, Sophie
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geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,History ,[SHS.ARCHEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory ,Interethnic marriage ,LOOM ,[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory ,Anthropology ,Perspective (graphical) ,South Italy ,Historiography ,Archaeology ,Funerary ,Peninsula ,Loom weights ,Gender studies ,Greek colonization ,computer ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,computer.programming_language - Abstract
This paper discusses the complex relationship between material culture and gender studies from a methodological point of view, with the aim of contributing to discussions in the field of Classical archaeology. First, we provide a few historiographical benchmarks for key epistemological developments, while evidencing the methodological difficulties inherent in the variability of our interpretations of burial practices and data. Then, in a second section, a case study focuses on simple objects of daily life. Discussing approaches inspired by gender studies, and considering the place of loom weights, we wish to tackle the presumption of textile work as an eminently female activity. The aim of this paper is to suggest a more nuanced and fluid approach to gender in relation to material culture.
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- 2021
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