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Agnès Garcia-ventura
The Use of Facial Characteristics as Engendering Strategies in Phoenician-Punic Studies
Facial characteristics such as discs on cheeks or exaggerated chins have been traditionally used to interpret Phoenician-Punic materials as representing either females or males. Beards and pointed chins, for instance, have been considered male attributes for terracotta masks, while disks have been interpreted as feminine makeup when present on figurines and ostrich eggshells. However, problems and even paradoxes of interpretation emerge when such characteristics appear on objects already (and perhaps arbitrarily) alternately gendered male or female. Thus, the cosmetic disks on “feminine” figurines become “warts” and “astral symbols” when appearing on “male” masks. Such conundrums show how s…
Materializing music and sound in some phoenician and punic contexts
Music and sound would have been essential aspects of everyday life in Phoenician and Punic times. However they have been largelyneglected in the specialist literature, which has traditionally paid more attention to visual features of material culture and has ignored theother senses such as hearing. We begin this article by contextualizing our uses of specifi c terms such as music, sound, instruments andembodiment. We then describe the geographical and chronological framework of the materials selected, and fi nally we analyse theevidence of musical and sound production in the material record.
Las terracotas de instrumentistas de la Ibiza punica. Consideraciones organológicas y apuntes para su interpretación
We analyze the group of musician terracottas from Ibiza keeping in mind two perspectives. Firstly, we display some organological considerations. To this respect we present current debates and proposals on which are the most suitable names to refer to the musical instruments represented. Secondly, we contextualise from a local point of view the clay figurines considering the musical and corporeal politics. Thus, we analyse which aspects turn terracottas into useful materials to elucidate identity, corporeality and social condition of the female musicians in Punic Ibiza.
Gender and Women in Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Bibliography 2002-2016
In this paper we present a bibliographical list of works published between 2002 and 2015 which have focused on women and gender in ancient Near Eastern studies. In addition to the list, we also provide an introduction in which we consider the relationship between women’s studies and gender studies and present a selection of the trends and theoretical positions which have emerged since the late 1980s either inside the framework of gender studies, or in closely related fields such as queer studies, postcolonial studies and feminist epistemologies – the predominant trends in the time span covered by this overview. We hope that this work will provide ancient Near Eastern scholars with a useful …
Music, gender and rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean: revisiting the Punic evidence
Abstract Music, playing instruments and performing rituals are bodily activities and as such they can be studied stressing their corporeal features. Music and sounds are usually essential elements in rites, and bodies play an essential role in bringing together music and rituals. We explore these issues focusing on Punic terracotta figurines playing musical instruments recovered from the island of Ibiza (fifth to third centuries bc).