A Sexist Present, a Human-less Past

Museum Archaeology in Greece

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20073728
AutoresDimitra Kokkinidou, Marianna Nikolaidou (0009-0002-7969-9557)
Año2000
Páginas33-55
Fecha de publicación2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaGender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-62334-1_3
OpenAlexW2500732830
ISBN9781349623341
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas22

The study of the past has largely been an appraisal of androcentrism. Public awareness of what constitutes gender roles in earlier cultures is inextricably bound with contemporary social asymmetries. Modern inequalities are projected into mainstream archaeological explanations via male-biased and often ethnocentric assumptions which proliferate both in scientific and in popularized literature. Biased scholarship lays emphasis on the alleged superiority of men while the status of women is systematically obscured, played down or even completely ignored. Furthermore, the use of discriminative language in archaeological discourse (Evans, 1990), the prejudiced professional stereotypes displayed to the public, and the greater chances often given to male archaeologists for career advancement, as will be discussed below, all contribute to the reproduction of a sexist past and by extension, to the justification of a sexist present

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnocentrism · Extension (predicate logic) · Inequality · Mainstream · Political science · Reproduction · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Gender Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage