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Events: Gender and Neolithic/Bronze Age societies at EAA, Lyon, September 2004
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Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 29 May 2004 Page Views: 808
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  Xth EAA meeting – Lyon (France), September 2004.
Gender and Neolithic/Bronze Age societies : trends, critics and issues in continental Europe
Escaping from an exclusively English-speaking academic audience, the category of Gender in archaeological discourse spread over continental Europe in recent years. This is a quite remarkable fact indeed. While archaeology is traditionally embedded within social sciences in Britain,
academic gaps remain clearly maintained elsewhere. Even earlier works from historians had very little impact on professional archaeological community. These recent studies underline that a growing number of scholars pay attention to an anthropologically informed archaeology. It also deserves the production of a deeper archaeological knowledge, « thick descriptions » far from cross-dating and cultural diagnosis.
The outbreak of Gender topic may be seen as a correlate of a widening academic field or a methodological renewal ; it is undoubtedly linked to a data re-examination and a new way of asking from scholars facing ancient material cultures, as well as to changing social and political reality of our presence. Epistemological relationships between Gender and technique (production, know-how, innovation) or Gender and social processes (negotiations of status and identity, cultural transmission) do became key issues. One might venture they actually constitute the main interpretation frame for the Neolithic and Bronze Age studies.
It is also the opportunity to challenge the most often androcentric common stereotypes : denial of social complexity ; question of equality of social status prior to the spread of copper metallurgy, equal status between men and women in Neolithic societies, material culture irrelevance for gender inquiry, etc.
Considering the data on technology, material culture, analysis of burial rites, dwelling analysis, rock art studies, etc. we aim to re-examine the gender relationships in prehistoric societies as well as shed light on social position of different gender categories. Much of the prehistoric woman’s world, however, belong to the sphere of undiscovered reality. The representation of cultural norms and social behavioral the prehistoric reality is often coded within symbolic meanings of artefacts and in relations between them. Reading these seemingly invisible relationships offers chance for re-examination of gender structure and norms of past societies.
Maxence Bailly
ESEP UMR 6636 CNRS
Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme
5, rue du Château de l’Horloge – B. P. 647
13094 AIX-EN-PROVENCE CEDEX 2
France
bailly@mmsh.univ-aix.fr
tel. 00 33 (0)4 42 52 49 40
fax. 00 33 (0)4 42 52 43 77
Jan Turek
Department of Archaeology
University of West Bohemia
Sedlackova 31
306 14 PLZEN
Czech Republic
turekj@kar.zcu.cz
Tel. 00 420 723 860 800
Fax. 00 420 235 352 863
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