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Gender, Identities, and Material Culture in the Italic Peninsula: Burial Practices and Loom Weights in Perspective

Arianna EspositoAirton Pollini

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geographygeography.geographical_feature_categoryHistory[SHS.ARCHEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and PrehistoryInterethnic marriageLOOM[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and PrehistoryAnthropologyPerspective (graphical)South ItalyHistoriographyArchaeologyFuneraryPeninsulaLoom weightsGender studiesGreek colonizationcomputerComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUScomputer.programming_language

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AbstractThis paper discusses the complex relationship between material culture and gender studies from a methodological point of view, with the aim of contributing to discussions in the field of Classical archaeology. First, we provide a few historiographical benchmarks for key epistemological developments, while evidencing the methodological difficulties inherent in the variability of our interpretations of burial practices and data. Then, in a second section, a case study focuses on simple objects of daily life. Discussing approaches inspired by gender studies, and considering the place of loom weights, we wish to tackle the presumption of textile work as an eminently female activity. The aim of this paper is to suggest a more nuanced and fluid approach to gender in relation to material culture.

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2021-09-14
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03525944