Archaeologies of Gender and Violence

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2017
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78570-688-2 (ISBN)

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Presents major new research in a series of case studies which combine archaeological and bioarchaeological data with analysis of ancient imagery and theoretical approaches to examine evidence for gendered violence in the past.

Uroš Matić and Bo Jensen have brought together a team of both young and senior researches from many different countries in this first volume that aims to explore the complex intersection between archaeology, gender and violence. Papers range from theoretical discussions on previous approaches to gender and violence and the ethical necessity to address these questions today, to case studies dealing on gender and violence from prehistoric to early medieval Europe, but also including studies on ancient Egypt, Persia and Peru. The contributors deal both with representations of violence and its gendered background in images and text, and with bioarchaeological evidence for violence and trauma with a gendered background. The volume is rich both in examples and approaches and includes opening and closing chapters by senior scholars in the field assessing the current state of work and addressing the scholarship to continue on the line of this volume.

Uroš Matić is a research associate of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, specializing in Egyptian archaeology, especially the topics of foreign relations, settlement archaeology, violence and gender. He holds a PhD from the Institute for Egyptology and Coptic Studies of the University of Muenster (Germany) since 2017. His most recent monographs include Body and Frames of War in New Kingdom Egypt. Violent Treatment of Enemies and Prisoners (2019), Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs. Past and Present Approaches in Egyptology (2020) and Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt (2021).

Preface

Uroš Matić and Bo Jensen

1. Introduction: Why do we need archaeologies of gender and violence, and why now?

Bo Jensen and Uroš Matić

2. Revisiting the myth of matriarchy”, rethinking determinism, seeing anew

Stephanie Koerner

3. The honoured and the sacrificed? Gender and violence at a sanctuary of the late 3rd millennium BC in Central Germany

André Spatzier, with anthropological analyses by Marcus Stecher and Kurt W. Alt

4. The role of violence in the construction of prehistoric masculinities

Lisbeth Skogstrand

5. “Her striking but cold beauty”: Gender and violence in depictions of Queen Nefertiti smiting the enemies

Uroš Matić

6. Les demoiselles d’Entremont: Violence, gender and headhunting in Iron Age Europe

Ian Armit

7. Violence against women in Graeco-Roman Egypt: the contribution of Demotic documents

Christine Hue-Arcé

8. Death and the maiden: Late antique images of nubile females as agents and victims of lethal violence

Susanne Moraw

9. Heaven for me, hell for the “others”: An agenda on sex and body from Sasanid Persia

Maryam Dezhamkhooy and Leila Papoli Yazdi

10. Skull-cups and snake-pits: Men’s revenge and women’s revenge in Viking Age Scandinavia

Bo Jensen

11. The weapons make the man? A re-analysis of Early Anglo-Saxon weapon burial and interpretation

Laura M. Whitehouse

12. Gender and structural violence in Prehistoric Peru

Julie Farnum

13. Gender and violence in archaeology: Final commentary

Louise Hitchcock

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Zusatzinfo	b/w and colour
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-78570-688-8 / 1785706888
ISBN-13	978-1-78570-688-2 / 9781785706882
Zustand	Neuware