Moche Sex Pots: Reproduction and Temporality in Ancient South America

Weismantel, Mary J

doi:10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.495

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“…Uno de los primeros alcances que tuve de manera oral y luego en clases, fue que la cerámica en la cultura Moche, especialmente la que tiene una fineza reconocible por su brillo, su textura y la calidad escultórica era hecha para ser ofrenda en las tumbas; pero luego tuve referencia que el contexto arqueológico de los denominados «huacos eróticos» era las tumbas de alto rango, como ofrendas funerarias (Weismantel: 2004). Entonces ¿era posible tener certeza de dónde provenía dicha cerámica?…”

Section: Delimitando Las Evidencias Y La Temáticaunclassified

Estudios de sexualidad en arqueología: alcances teóricos y metodológicos desde una interpretación sociológica

Chávez

2018

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RESUMENCon el presente artículo se pretende iniciar un campo para la reflexión y el debate en torno a los estudios de sexualidad en el periodo prehispánico, desde un enfoque sociológico y usando evidencia material arqueológica existente, considerando que hasta el momento ambas disciplinas no han coincidido en la labor de la interpretación sobre dicho tema. El trabajo parte de un enfoque que centra su análisis en la proposición que los sujetos de sociedades pasadas han tenido expresiones y prácticas sexuales diversas, descentrada de una construcción identitaria fija y bajo un sexualidad más rica y fluida.Palabras clave: arqueología; sexualidad; sociología; teoría queer; cultura moche. Studies of Sexuality in Archaeology: theoretical and methodological approaches from a sociological interpretation ABSTRACTWith the present paper I tried to open and initiate a site for the reflection and the debate around the studies of sexuality in the prehispanic period, from a sociological approach and using archaeological evidence, considering that both disciplines have not coincided in the work of interpreting the material evidence on the subject so far. This paper considers an approach that focuses its analysis on the hypothesis that the subjects of past societies have had diverse sexual expressions and practices, decentralized from a fixed identityconstruction and under a richer and more fluid sexuality practices.

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Section: Delimitando Las Evidencias Y La Temáticaunclassified

Estudios de sexualidad en arqueología: alcances teóricos y metodológicos desde una interpretación sociológica

Chávez

2018

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“…Thus, the strongest case studies in identity are those that encompass a multitude of gendered inferences to understand social lives in the past. Following this perspective, many intensive studies of gender, childhood, sexuality, ethnicity, class inequality, status, and queer theory have been undertaken (e.g., ARNOLD, 2007;ARTHUR, 2002;CROSS, 2007;FINLAY, 2015;HÖGBERG, 2008;REEDER, 2000;TORRES-ROUFF, 2002;WEISMANTEL, 2004;WURST, 2010).…”

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The feminist critique

Neubauer

Schaefer

2017

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We discuss the important role of the feminist critique in bringing awareness to gender, childhood, and identity research, and in giving voice to the perspectives of underrepresented groups. As a case study of ancient social lives and gender, we discuss a range of Marajoara identity markers interpreted through the study of ceramic tangas (female pubic coverings) from Marajó Island in the Brazilian Amazon (A.D. 400-1400). There, tangas were made and used by women as a material representation of social position, gender, and individual identity. We argue that identity constitutes a fundamentally important aspect of archaeological research, and that the strongest case studies in identity are those that encompass a variety of gendered inferences to understand social lives of the past. Palavras-chave: Feminist theory and archaeology; Gender and identity studies; Marajoara Ceramic Tangas. RESUMONeste artigo, discutimos o importante papel da crítica feminista na conscientização de pesquisas relacionadas aos estudos de gênero, infância e identidade, e em vocalizar as perspectivas de grupos pouco representados. Como um estudo de caso sobre gênero e vidas sociais antigas, discutimos uma série de marcadores de identidade Marajoara interpretados através do estudo das tangas cerâmicas (coberturas púbicas femininas) na Ilha de Marajó, na Amazônia brasileira (400-1400 A.D.). Estes artefatos foram feitos e usados por mulheres como uma representação material de posição social, gênero e identidade individual. Argumentamos que identidade constitui um aspecto importante e fundamental na pesquisa arqueológica, e que seus mais sólidos estudos de caso constituem aqueles que abrangem uma variedade de inferências sobre gênero para compreender as vidas sociais no passado.

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“…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.…”

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Introduction to “Binary Binds”: Deconstructing Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Archaeological Practice

Ghisleni

Jordan

Fioccoprile

2016

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Gender archaeology has made significant strides toward deconstructing the hegemony of binary categorizations. Challenging dichotomies such as man/woman, sex/gender, and biology/culture, approaches informed by poststructuralist, feminist, and queer theories have moved beyond essentialist and universalist identity constructs to more nuanced configurations. Despite the theoretical emphasis on context, multiplicity, and fluidity, binary starting points continue to streamline the spectrum of variability that is recognized, often reproducing normative assumptions in the evidence. The contributors to this special issue confront how sex, gender, and sexuality categories condition analytical visibility, aiming to develop approaches that respond to the complexity of theory in archaeological practice. The papers push the ontological and epistemological boundaries of bodies, personhood, and archaeological possibility, challenging a priori assumptions that contain how sex, gender, and sexuality categories are constituted and related to each other. Foregrounding intersectional approaches that engage with ambiguity, variability, and difference, this special issue seeks to "de-contain" categories, assumptions, and practices from "binding" our analytical gaze toward only certain kinds of persons and knowledges, in interpretations of the past and practices in the present.The interpretation of sex and gender in archaeology has long been contained by the social polarity of "man" and "woman" as well as the confinement of sex in biology and gender in culture (Joyce 2008;Sofaer 2006;Yates 1993)-what we term the "binary binds." The aim of this special issue is to critically engage with and move beyond the limitations of sex and gender dichotomies in archaeological narratives, with an emphasis on developing approaches that respond to the complexity of theory in practices. The 2 articles emerged from the Archaeology and Gender in Europe 1 (Dommasnes and Montón-Subías 2012: 374, 382) sponsored session at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Istanbul, Turkey. Contributors were challenged to rethink the analytical categories that frame archaeological reconstructions of sex, gender, and sexuality, exploring how binary starting points and methodological practices condition and constrain interpretations of sex and gender variability.We recognize that a call to critically interrogate sex and gender dichotomies is not new. The binary binds and their hierarchical confinement of biological and social difference have been loci of contestation since the emergence of gender as an analytical category in archaeology (e.g., Claassen ). In the past three decades, gender archaeology has made significant strides toward deconstructing the imperatives of these dichotomies, informed by poststructuralist, feminist, and queer

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Moche Sex Pots: Reproduction and Temporality in Ancient South America

Cited by 60 publications

References 19 publications

Estudios de sexualidad en arqueología: alcances teóricos y metodológicos desde una interpretación sociológica

Estudios de sexualidad en arqueología: alcances teóricos y metodológicos desde una interpretación sociológica

The feminist critique

Introduction to “Binary Binds”: Deconstructing Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Archaeological Practice

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