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Title Archaeologies of gender and violence / edited by Uroš Matić and Bo Jensen
Published Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017

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Contents Preface / Uroš Matić and Bo Jensen -- Introduction : why do we need archaeologies of gender and violence and why now? / Bo Jensen and Uroš Matić -- Revisiting the "myth of matriarchy", rethinking determinism : Seeing anew / Stephanie Koerner -- The honoured and the sacrificed? : gender and violence at a sanctuary -- Of the late 3rd millennium BC in central Germany -- André Spatzier, with anthropological analyses by Marcus Stecher and Kurt W. Alt -- The role of violence in the construction of prehistoric masculinities / Lisbeth Skogstrand -- "Her striking but cold beauty" : gender and violence in depictions of Queen Nefertiti smiting the enemies / Uroš Matić -- Les demoiselles d'Entremont : violence, gender and headhunting in Iron Age Europe / Ian Armit -- Violence against women in Graeco-Roman Egypt : the contribution of Demotic documents / Christine Hue-Arcé -- Death and the maiden : late antique images of nubile females as agents and victims of lethal violence / Susanne Moraw -- Heaven for me, hell for the "others" : an agenda on sex and body from Sasanid Persia / Maryam Dezhamkhooy and Leila Papoli Yazdi -- Skull-cups and snake-pits : men's revenge and women's revenge in Viking age Scandinavia / Bo Jensen -- The weapons make the man? : a re-analysis of early Anglo-Saxon weapon burial and interpretation / Laura M. Whitehouse -- Gender and structural violence in prehistoric Peru / Julie Farnum -- Gender and violence in archaeology : final commentary / Louise Hitchock
Summary Uroš Matic and Bo Jensen have brought together a team of both young and senior researchers from many different countries in this first volume that aims to explore the complex intersection between archaeology, gender and violence. Papers range from theoretical discussions on previous approaches to gender and violence and the ethical necessity to address these questions today, to case studies dealing with gender and violence from prehistoric to early medieval Europe, but also including studies on ancient Egypt, Persia and Peru. The contributors engage both with representations of violence and its gendered background in images and text, and with bioarchaeological evidence for violence and trauma with a gendered background. The volume is rich both in examples and approaches and includes opening and closing chapters by senior scholars in the field assessing the current state of work and the direction of future scholarship. Book jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Violence -- History
Women -- Violence against -- History
Sex role -- History
Social archaeology.
Anthropology, Prehistoric.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Anthropology, Prehistoric
Sex role
Social archaeology
Violence
Women -- Violence against
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Matić, Uroš, editor, author.
Jensen, Bo, editor, author
LC no. 2017032874
ISBN 9781785706899
1785706896
9781785706912
1785706918
9781785706882
1785706888