Archaeology as space technology

Digging for gender and class in holy land

Bibliographic Data

ID12202452
AuthorsMananne Sawicki (1University of Kentucky, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume6
Issue1-4
Pages319-348
Publication date1994-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMethod & Theory in the Study of Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0943-3058 • E-ISSN: 1570-0682
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/157006894x00172
OpenAlexW2022673810
LanguageEN
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Contemporary archaeology offers three methodological options: the classlcal, the processual or scientific, and the post-processual. I propose a stance of "chastened realism" that integrates aspects of all three options toward a program for recovering information about non-élite sectors of ancient societies, and particularly for reconstructing their systems of gender, kinship, and labour The discipline of archaeology manipulates space in the effort to understand it. However the space that one seeks to understand - that is, to manage epistemologically - is space that already has undergone material, logical, and ideological management. Archaeology in the mode of "chastened realism" is a reflective technique for understanding multiply managed space. Examples taken from gender archaeology as conducted in the Amerleas suggest how questions of gender and economic organization might be investigated in Israel, with particular attention to the city of Sepphorts in Galilee in the era of the Gospels and the Mishnah (1-2 century C.E.)

Archaeology · Class (philosophy · Digging · Epistemology · Ideology · Kinship · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Realism · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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