2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11759-011-9157-9
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How to Queer the Past Without Sex: Queer Theory, Feminisms and the Archaeology of Identity

Abstract: ________________________________________________________________A queer archaeology is often equated to looking for ancient homosexuality. As a challenge to heteronormative practice, queer theory, instead, provides a framework for engaging with all aspects of identity formation and the processes and behaviors that mediate it. This article examines two primary points: (1) queer theory's relationship to feminist practice and archaeology and (2) its application to the construction and production of difference amo… Show more

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“…Aquí radica el problema: el uso de estas distinciones para comprender el pasado y a quienes lo habitaron reproduce nuestro marco ontológico, como si la perspectiva naturalista, con sus posibilidades y limitaciones, fuera universal. Así también, y como lo han planteado arqueólogas/os desde la teoría queer, el uso acrítico de categorías modernas occidentales tiene como consecuencia la reproducción de normativas contemporáneas en la comprensión del pasado, asumiendo que personas no-occidentales, nomodernas, tuvieron marcos normativos similares, que jerarquizaron los elementos del mundo de modo similar a como lo hacemos nosotros (Dowson 2000, Reeder 2000, Voss 2000, Blackmore 2011). Así, la arqueología ha jugado un rol importante como agente naturalizador del orden normativo contemporáneo.…”
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“…Aquí radica el problema: el uso de estas distinciones para comprender el pasado y a quienes lo habitaron reproduce nuestro marco ontológico, como si la perspectiva naturalista, con sus posibilidades y limitaciones, fuera universal. Así también, y como lo han planteado arqueólogas/os desde la teoría queer, el uso acrítico de categorías modernas occidentales tiene como consecuencia la reproducción de normativas contemporáneas en la comprensión del pasado, asumiendo que personas no-occidentales, nomodernas, tuvieron marcos normativos similares, que jerarquizaron los elementos del mundo de modo similar a como lo hacemos nosotros (Dowson 2000, Reeder 2000, Voss 2000, Blackmore 2011). Así, la arqueología ha jugado un rol importante como agente naturalizador del orden normativo contemporáneo.…”
Section: De Categorías a Atributos Relacionalesunclassified
“…A realidade das outras tantas formas já foi -e está sendo cada vez mais -atestada pela biologia crítica, seguida da bioarqueologia e confirmada pelas evidências etnográficas (LEWIN & LEAP, 2009). Restaria à arqueologia mostrar "como" se expressam e se expressavam as múltiplas variantes da diversidade sexual e de gênero na espécie humana ao longo de sua história, suas particularidades, perspectivas próprias e transformações (BLACKMORE, 2011;DOWSON, 2009;VOSS, 2009).…”
Section: A Crítica Feminista a Teoria Queer E Algumas Considerações unclassified
“…A focus on procreative anatomy has tended to align this normal on a heterosexual, or heteronormative, correspondence between binary sex, two genders, and opposite-sex sexual desire (Dowson 2000b(Dowson , 2009aGeller 2008). Queer theory (e.g., Butler 1990Butler , 1993de Lauretis1991;Giffney 2009;Halperin 1995;Jagose 1996;Sedgwick 1990) and archaeologies of sexuality Voss 2008;Voss and Casella 2012) have offered positionalities counter to the hegemony of the binary normative, resisting the heterosexual naturalization of past sexual practice (e.g., Weismantel 2004) as well as the stabilization of essentialist subjects-i.e., the binary and others (Alberti 2013;Blackmore 2011;Dowson 2000a;Croucher 2005;Cobb2005;Geller 2008Geller , 2009aJensen 2007;Marshall 2000Marshall , 2013Matić 2012Matić , 2016Moral 2016;Schmidt 2002;Terendy et al 2009;Weismantel 2013). Such research has stressed the variety of possibilities and loci of significance for the embodiment of difference, and a variety of ways that sex, the body, and gender can be related in the constitution and valuing of personhood.…”
Section: Destabilizing the Binary Binds: Approaches To Differencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Echoes of the binary binds tend to implicitly orient analytical processes toward a concept of personhood in which sex anchors any kind of social difference, compelling patterns from the evidence that can be explained according to this reference point. Some have pointed to intersectional and relational approaches to reframe questions of identity and difference (e.g., Arnold 2016;Blackmore 2011;Marshall and Alberti 2014;Matić 2016;Moral 2016;Spencer-Wood 2011;Sterling 2015). Challenges to the hierarchies of contemporary disciplinary practice, knowledge production, and pedagogy (e.g., Cobb and Croucher 2016;Conkey 2005;Dowson 2009a, b;Franklin 2001;Sterling 2015) can aid in both encouraging diversity in the professional profile of archaeologists and fostering approaches that engage with gendered persons in their situated experiences and complexity, long advocated for by researchers with feminist commitments.…”
Section: Normative:non-normative Tensions In Practice-the Containmentmentioning
confidence: 99%