With its forts, swords, halberds and daggers the Argaric people of south-east Spain has long been seen as a warrior society. The authors dismantle this model, showing that defences around settlements and weapons and knives in tombs have quite different social roles. An analysis of skeletons showed that while these Bronze Age people might have been periodically clubbing each other on the head, they were not doing a lot of lethal stabbing.
This article proposes that early modern globalization took shape through the global circulation of gender ideologies, sexual politics, engendered technologies, and engendered knowledge. It does so by exploring the early years of Jesuit missions in Guam (Mariana Islands) and describes mission policies as engendered sexual policies that fostered the emergence of a new sex/gender system within indigenous Chamorro society. These policies targeted, among others, the sphere of maintenance activities. This concept highlights the foregrounding nature of a set of routine everyday practices that are essential to social continuity. Guam offers an interesting case study to discuss how gender transformations were performed and implemented on the ground, and what they entailed for those who experienced them.
Muerte e identidad femenina en el mundo argáricoDeath and female identity in the Argaric world Sandra Montón-Subías (*)
RESUMENYa que la identidad se construye en un contexto de interacción social, es de suponer que el comportamiento funerario formaría parte de la construcción social de la identidad en las comunidades prehistóricas. Por lo tanto, también debió actuar como componente activo en la representación y negociación de las identidades sociales argáricas, incluida la femenina, cuyo estudio se propone este artículo.En las siguientes páginas repasaré las prácticas funerarias argáricas, postularé nuevas hipótesis respecto a su realización y, destacaré, a través del estudio de la cultura material funeraria y de los cuerpos del pasado, de qué modo la identidad hegemónica de las mujeres argáricas se configuró a partir de mecanismos relacionales.
ABSTRACT
Given that selves are constructed in contexts of social interaction, we can safely assume that funerary behaviour fostered the formation of subjective identity in prehistoric societies. Funerary behaviour can therefore be seen as an active component in representing and negotiating Argaric social identities, including female selves, which are the main focus of this essay.An overview of Argaric funerary practices will be presented here, alongside new hypotheses on how they were conducted. A study of corpses and funerary material culture will show how it was predominantly through relational mechanisms that Argaric women's selves were constructed.Palabras clave: Edad del Bronce; El Argar; Sudeste de la Península Ibérica; II milenio AC; Registro Funerario; Construcción de la identidad.
INTRODUCCIÓNEn este artículo estudiaré la pauta funeraria de la cultura argárica en tanto que componente activo en la representación y construcción social de la identidad femenina en sus comunidades. Ya que la identidad se construye en un contexto de interacción social, se puede asumir que el comportamiento funerario formó parte de esa construcción en las comunidades prehistóricas y, por lo tanto, también en las argáricas (Fig. 1). Mediante su particular ritual funerario argáricos y argáricas expresaron y re-crearon a la vez distancias y proximidades sociales. Desde mi punto de vista, tan importantes resultan las vinculaciones como las diferencias que se articularon a través del espectro funerario, pues todas ellas resultaron de acciones humanas que TRABAJOS DE PREHISTORIA pueden ofrecer información sobre la construcción social de la identidad. Es de sobra conocida la importancia que el estudio del mundo de la muerte ha tenido desde sus orígenes para la arqueología. Las necrópolis y las costumbres funerarias han jugado un papel decisivo en la definición y caracterización de los grupos sociales del pasado. A partir de las estructuras, lugares y objetos que se eligieron al enterrar a los muertos se han formulado modelos interpretativos que, desde diferentes perspectivas, en ocasiones antagónicas, han intentando entender cómo era el mundo de esos muertos en vida, cómo se organizaba ...
This study presents an overview of the development of gender archaeologies in local academies across Europe, from the initial efforts in Norway in the early 1970s, to the founding of the multinational Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE) working group in 2009. In addition, the study seeks to show the scope of gender archaeology once contributions from different traditions in different languages are included, and to provide comparative historiographies for those European countries where gender archaeology is now a major strand of research. We hope that innovative approaches to the study of gender in the past will emerge in the future thanks to fruitful encounters between regional trends and developments.
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