The History of Gender Archaeology in Northern Europe

Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig

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“…While these traditional perspectives have been challenged in recent years, their legacy means that Iron-Viking Age discourse sometimes still treats identity as static and essential, with individuals slotted into doxic categories of warriors, traders and housewives. The intense debate over the Birka 'woman warrior' burial is a case in point (Price et al 2019) Despite, or because of, this legacy, feminist critique has a long history in Scandinavian archaeology (Sørensen 2012), and includes invaluable contributions (e.g. Arwill-Nordbladh 1998).…”

Section: Gender and More-than-human Worlds Of Iron And Viking Age Sca...mentioning

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Reflections on Posthuman Ethics. Grievability and the More-than-human Worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia

Eriksen¹,

Kay²

2022

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Posthuman feminism grows out of interdisciplinary discourse exploring relational metaphysics. It is set apart from other approaches in the broader ontological turn by its central ethical claim: by actively forming kinship or alliances among human and non-humans, we can overcome major challenges of today's world and create a better future. Archaeologists and anthropologists are well situated to investigate this claim, as we already work with worlds unstructured by western dichotomies. This paper explores one such past world—Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia—to ask how alternative more-than-human relationships may work in practice. Specifically, we examine the relations among swords, animals, houses and humans in the first millennium ce, assessing ethical commitments within Butler's framework of grievability. We argue that the picture that emerges is fundamentally relational and unfamiliar, with complex articulations of bodies and personhood criss-crossing human–object divides; however, the ethical commitments of this world leave us deeply uncomfortable. Thus, although we welcome posthuman feminism's call to ontological openness, we caution against too easy an association between more-than-human kinship and ethical projects.

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“…Despite, or because of, this legacy, feminist critique has a long history in Scandinavian archaeology (Sørensen 2012), and includes invaluable contributions (e.g. Arwill-Nordbladh 1998).…”

Section: Gender and More-than-human Worlds Of Iron And Viking Age Sca...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on Posthuman Ethics. Grievability and the More-than-human Worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia

Eriksen¹,

Kay²

2022

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“…Marie-Louise Stig Sørensen (2013) has described gender archaeology in Scandinavia making use of the terms first-, second-and third-wave feminism. Feminism is often periodized in this way (see van der Tuin 2014), and first-wave feminism dealt with the gaining of gender equality in the workplace.…”

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“…Furthermore, it includes the questioning of epistemologies and classifications where, for example, biological sex was distinguished from socially constructed gender. In archaeology, the third wave came with the postprocessual archaeologies and the development of more theoretical agendas that engaged with questions of how gender is inscribed onto material bodies (Engelstad 2007;Sørensen 2013). This wave has also been connected to questions around power and how the intersectionality of overlapping identity categories coincides in and forms oppressive structures.…”

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Bodily Entanglements: Gender, Archaeological Sciences and the More-than-ness of Archaeological Bodies

Fredengren

2021

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Critical feminist Posthumanism provides novel ways of dealing with bodies as material-discursive phenomena. As such, bodies come about, change and dissolve by re-workings of entangled relations. Such relationships are making human bodies more-than-human. Bodies can be understood as full of excesses—that will not be captured by, for example, gender or age categories alone—albeit occasionally materially shaped by them. Examples of such excessive relations are captured by DNA analysis or various isotope analyses—where diet as well as geological habitat gets imprinted into the body and become a part of the personhood—and can be discussed as the landscape within. This paper deals with some misunderstandings around Posthumanism, but also with how critical posthumanist feminist theory can breathe new life into archaeological gender studies and thereby also forge new relationships with the archaeological sciences.

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“…Englestad, 2007, p. 223-6). Mais surpreendente é o argumento usado, em uma monografi a de arqueologia de gênero, por Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (2000). Em contraste irônico com a análise de Hanen e Kelley (1992), ela declara que a arqueologia de gê-nero foi, para seu detrimento, profundamente infl uenciada pelas políticas feministas.…”

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What knowers know well: standpoint theory and gender archeology

Wylie

2017

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ResumoNeste artigo, argumento que -ao expor o androcentrismo do sistema referencial de suposições consideradas como óbvias e levantando a questão da confi abilidade de normas entrincheiradas de justifi cação -a arqueologia de gênero é mais bem entendida como uma forma de construtivismo social relutante. Ela expõe inadvertidamente a contingência de compromissos fundacionais, do conteúdo e da prática, que se presumiu serem neutros com respeito aos interesses situados dos praticantes, contextualmente independentes e trans-historicamente estáveis. Mas longe de minar fatalmente a objetividade do empreendimento, argumento que essas implicações mais radicais da arqueologia de gênero ilustram o valor da análise construtivista social como um recurso epistêmico. Deve-se atentar para o papel epistêmico positivo que ela pode ter como catálise para os tipos de crítica transformadora que são essenciais para o bom funcionamento da ciência. Argumento que um compromisso com a análise construtivista em curso deveria ser um componente central das concepções procedimentais da objetividade que levam a sério a necessidade de mobilizar ao invés de marginalizar os diversos recursos epistêmicos dos conhecedores situados.Palavras-Chave • Arqueologia de gênero. Objetividade. Teoria do ponto de vista.Filosofi a feminista da ciência. Construtivismo social.A pesquisa de gênero em arqueologia tem sido um campo de crescimento vigoroso desde o início dos anos 1990 mas, apesar das afi nidades óbvias com os programas de pesquisa explicitamente feministas que tomaram forma em campos afi ns a partir da década de 1960, e apesar dos compromissos feministas de suas fundadoras, ela foi marcada por uma ambivalência persistente em relação a suas associações feministas. No decorrer da década das primeiras conferências e publicações importantes, vários defensores proeminentes da "arqueologia de gênero" deixaram explícitas suas reservas; rejeitaram in totum a viabilidade de um programa de pesquisa informado por compromissos feministas com base em que essa intrusão de valores políticos não podia senão reduzir o alcance e minar a credibilidade do empreendimento.No centro dessa postura antifeminista na arqueologia de gênero há uma tensão que pretendo interrogar. Seus defensores ao mesmo tempo confi am e rejeitam os artigos , São Paulo, v. 15, n.

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The History of Gender Archaeology in Northern Europe

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Reflections on Posthuman Ethics. Grievability and the More-than-human Worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia

Reflections on Posthuman Ethics. Grievability and the More-than-human Worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia

Bodily Entanglements: Gender, Archaeological Sciences and the More-than-ness of Archaeological Bodies

What knowers know well: standpoint theory and gender archeology

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