Beginning with the pioneering work of the Norwegians in the 1970's, many Anglo-American archaeologists have been engaged with the study of different roles and actions/activities by participants other than men in the human past. We have focused on women, on what we have referred to as gender, as well as on other social categories (such as "third spirits") in the demonstration that the human past was participated in, not surprisingly, by many different social actors including but very definitely other-than-men. For more than 40 years, we have complicated the story of human actors, and while there is understandably still much ambiguity and the attribution of certain practices to specific social roles and to women is still a challenge, nonetheless this scholarly effort has been exciting and quite successful. In this presentation, I will discuss just some of the ways in which this process has developed and how we have changed the field to incorporate women, gender, and more possibilities than just a male/female binary understanding of the human past.
| Type : | : | Communications |
| Commentaire | : | In this presentation, I will note some of the ways in which we have been working at broadening the social actors in the past through the explicit attention to what women and other-then-men might have been doing, with not only the development of new methods but by challenging our biases, expanding the category of archaeological data, and by recognizing the multiplicity of possible social relations. |
| Thématiques | : | Session F - Où sont les femmes ? Archéologie du genre dans la Préhistoire et la Protohistoire : la France à l'écart des gender studies ? |
| Mots-Clés | : | historical perspectives ; the archaeology of women and gender in North America ; methods and challenges |
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