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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793199303321

Titolo

Archaeologies of gender and violence / / edited by Uroš Matić and Bo Jensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Philadelphia : , : Oxbow Books, , 2017

ISBN

1-78570-691-8

1-78570-689-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages)

Disciplina

305.309

Soggetti

Violence - History

Women - Violence against - History

Sex role - History

Social archaeology

Anthropology, Prehistoric

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.