Material Remains and Social Relations:

Meyers, Carol

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“…Both the architecture and the material culture that they contain are vital for understanding living patterns (Allison, 1999). According to the Classical authors, households were presumed to be the main arena of women's activities; hence these are preferential spaces to study the social role of women (Meyers, 2003: 434). The type of structures, arrangement of space, complexity, diversity, or presence or absence of privacy could therefore shed some light on the relationships among the members of a household and beyond.…”

Section: Women In Funerary Evidencementioning

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“…Archaeological, iconographic, and textual evidence suggests that in many societies spinning and weaving were primarily carried out by women (Barber, 1991: 283–98; Meyers, 2003: 432–34; Rafel-Fontanals, 2007; Prados-Torreira & Sánchez-Moral, 2020: 130–31). Despite the number of houses excavated with modern techniques in the Meseta, detailed material records are still scarce.…”

Section: Women In Funerary Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using this idea of heterarchy and gender, Carol Meyers (2003: 437) suggested that women's activities worked as heterarchical subsystems, each with their own patterns of ranking, privilege, and status. Within these subsystems, some women were able to manipulate social relationships to advance their own ends, exercising leadership and even dominance.…”

Section: Concluding Remarks: An Iron Age With Womenmentioning

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“…tool making, hunting, trade, or warfare), ignoring the activities traditionally assigned to women (e.g. parenting, gathering and processing food) (Nelson, 1997: 13–21, 88; Meyers, 2003; Brumfiel & Robin, 2008; Levy, 2019). As a consequence of these discourses, women have been practically invisible in most archaeological narratives and their activities have frequently been an afterthought.…”

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A Perspective on Late Iron Age Women in the Iberian Northern Meseta

Liceras‐Garrido

2022

Eur. j. archaeol

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The Late Iron Age has traditionally been portrayed as an age of swords, Celtic-patterned shields, and bronze cauldrons, a time of warfare, banquets, and raids, mostly starring male warriors. But what do we know about the rest of the population, especially women? Is it possible, based on the same data, to uncover an alternative narrative that includes women? This article focuses on the northern Meseta of Iberia, an area with a long research tradition, in which women are almost invisible in accounts of the Iron Age. Drawing on a range of archaeological and textual evidence, this study brings the roles of women to the forefront, offering a critique of traditional research discourses and a discussion on how Iron Age societies worked from a gender-inclusive perspective.

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Section: Women In Funerary Evidencementioning

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Section: Women In Funerary Evidencementioning

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A Perspective on Late Iron Age Women in the Iberian Northern Meseta

Liceras‐Garrido

2022

Eur. j. archaeol

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“…58 Household space is both gendered space and social space. 59 Texts from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ugarit, and the Hebrew Bible all reference weaving and textile production as the purview of women. 60 Ethnographic and cross-cultural studies also reveal that textile production is primarily the job of women.…”

Section: Textile In the Making: Jacob's Workhopmentioning

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The Case of Joseph’s Coat: Giving Gifts to Children in the Hebrew Bible

Garroway

2022

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Joseph’s coat is one of the most recognizable garments in the Hebrew Bible. In The Gift, Marcel Mauss theorizes that a gift contains part of the giver’s social persona, thus requiring a counter-gift to be given. Drawing on Mauss’s work as a heuristic category, this study investigates the economy of gifts and counter-gifts in the Hebrew Bible using Joseph’s coat as a case study. Joseph’s age at the time he receives the gift and the seeming lack of a counter-gift form the two main questions that this study investigates. To answer these questions requires determining who made the coat, a question best answered through an archaeological analysis of how textiles were created in ancient Israel. The paper concludes that an ancient audience would have understood both Jacob and Rachel to be makers of the gift, and therefore the (expected) recipients of a counter-gift. The end of the Joseph Novella suggests that this expectation was met after a period of delay, during which time Joseph grew into adulthood and rose to a position where he could properly return a gift on par with the special coat.

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Friendship and First Testament Writings

2022

Towards Friendship‐Shaped Communities

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Material Remains and Social Relations:

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A Perspective on Late Iron Age Women in the Iberian Northern Meseta

A Perspective on Late Iron Age Women in the Iberian Northern Meseta

The Case of Joseph’s Coat: Giving Gifts to Children in the Hebrew Bible

Friendship and First Testament Writings

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