Between the Household and the World System: Social Collectivity and Community Agency in Overseas Chinese Archaeology

<b>Interview with Barbara Voss Gender Issues</b>

“…For example, in 1999 I did a citation analysis of gender archaeology publications. I found that from the very beginning, archaeologist studying gender were citing queer theory and other critical works on sexuality, long before an archaeology of "sexuality" per se was formalized (Voss 2000). Likewise, we commonly think that sexuality research in archaeology is quite new, but actually, archaeological research on sexuality has been going on for centuries (Voss 2008d).…”

“…But of course household composition itself is a variable to be studied independently, rather than assumed. I have argued in several ways that gender and sexuality need to be studied on global, regional, local, and micro-scale levels (Voss 2015(Voss , 2008a(Voss , 2008b(Voss , 2008c. We also need to consider the full spectrum of object biographies -production, procurement, distribution, use, and discard -because each of those phases may have differently gendered dynamics.…”

“…Writing answers to these thought-provoking questions has provided one more opportunity for reflection. (Schmidt;Voss, 2000), em meados da década de 1990, éramos estudantes de pós-graduação na Universidade da Califórnia, em Berkeley. Lá, tivemos o privilégio de estudar com alguns dos principais mentores da arqueologia de gênero: Meg Conkey, Ruth Tringham, Rosemary Joyce, Kent Lightfoot, Christine Hastorf, entre outros.…”

“…Por exemplo, em 1999, fiz uma análise de citações de publicações de arqueologia de gênero. Descobri que, desde o início, o arqueólogo estudando gênero estava citando teoria queer e outros trabalhos críticos sobre a sexualidade, muito antes que uma arqueologia da "sexualidade" estivesse formalizada (Voss, 2000). Do mesmo modo, comumente pensamos que a pesquisa sexual em arqueologia é bastante nova, mas, na verdade, a pesquisa arqueológica sobre a sexualidade tem sido realizada há séculos (Voss, 2008d).…”

A Family Affair: Whaling as Native American Household Strategy on Eastern Long Island, New York

“…Indigenous household structures, family networks, and labor practices both shaped and responded to men's participation in the whaling industry. The links between houses as physical structures, the social groups who use them, and the activities that take place within them vary cross-culturally, and changes in the broader social organization of production also affect household formation, as household sizes grow or shrink with the availability of land or wealth (Wilk and Rathje 1982;Barile and Brandon 2004;Voss 2008). Household patterns and biographies from the Shinnecock reservation and the neighborhood of Eastville in Sag Harbor show how families and communities responded to the pressures of limited land and economic inequality in the 19th century; the Native whalers established their careers in a context of widespread, intergenerational, and often-communal trips to sea.…”