Gender and Society on the Margins of Bronze Age Europe
Autor Mark Haughtonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 noi 2024
Gender and Society on the Margins of Bronze Age Europe makes a decisive and critical intervention in the debate around the nature of gender in the European Bronze Age. Tacking between scales, from the detail of local practice to a major analysis of recently excavated and analysed skeletons, it argues that binary gender was far from universal in Bronze Age Europe, and consequently questions its broader importance. Unlike bronze technology, shared widely between communities across Europe, binary gender was an optional or negotiable part of Bronze Age life. The book goes on to assess the huge implications of this evidence firstly, for the history of gender, as it indicates that there was no simple linear trajectory to binary gender and patriarchy and secondly, by demonstrating that interconnectivity in Bronze Age Europe did not result in fundamental social and ideological agreement, undermining the idea of a shared Bronze Age society. At its core, the book reimagines how gender archaeology can be conducted, inspired by the sub-discipline’s radical origins and following a method rooted in the detail of local practice.
This book is essential reading for scholars and students of the European Bronze Age, gender (pre)history, and gender archaeology. It connects with major themes in theoretical thinking across the humanities, particularly relating to posthumanism, assemblage theory, embodiment and gender.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032578859
ISBN-10: 1032578858
Pagini: 190
Ilustrații: 62
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032578858
Pagini: 190
Ilustrații: 62
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic and PostgraduateRecenzii
Mark Haughton’s groundbreaking work upends the narrative of binary gender that locates the origin of patriarchal society in the European Bronze Age. Instead, he traces the varied and creative ways in which gendered identities were performed in Bronze Age Scotland and Ireland.
- Prof. Joanna Brück, University College Dublin
- Prof. Joanna Brück, University College Dublin
Cuprins
1. Introduction: the promise of gender in archaeology; 2. Lived experience and the gendered lens on prehistory; 3. Gender and the European Bronze Age; 4. Encounters with the margins: Becoming gendered on the edge; 5. Tales from the margins: Scotland; 6. Tales from the margins: Ireland; 7. Converging narratives: Understanding gender in Early Bronze Age Ireland and Scotland; 8. Gender unbound: Contextual gender in Bronze Age Europe; 9. Writing human lives: Sitting with variability
Notă biografică
Mark Haughton is a prehistoric archaeologist and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland. This work is based on research conducted while a Teaching Associate and PhD fellow at the University of Cambridge and as a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is interested in human lives in prehistory, broadly centred around themes relating to gender and the body, human/animal relations, mobility and domestic life.
Descriere
This book explores and critiques the underlying assumption that a binary gender system and patriarchal norms were universal in Bronze Age Europe through a careful analysis of burial practice in Ireland and Scotland.