Exposing queer biotechnology via queer archaeology

The quest to (re)construct the human body from the inside out

Bibliographic Data

ID3918925
AuthorsStefanie S Rixecker (corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume32
Issue2
Pages263-274
Publication date2000-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438240050131234
OpenAlexW2080742282
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

Relatively new endeavours in the biological and micro-sciences attempt to construct and reconstruct the often diseased, disabled, or otherwise imperfect human body. As such, all bodies, due to their imperfections, may be labelled 'Queer'. Queer archaeology becomes the perspective from which these new sites and their related artefacts may be exposed, assessed, and reconstructed. In this way, the metaphorical use of archaeology yields potential rhetorical and discursive fields by which contemporary -not just 'ancient' -bodies and sites may be 'unearthed'. The simultaneously virtual and real (non)corporeal contexts of biotechnology and genetic engineering enable the development of queer archaeology. This paper is an attempt to open this field of inquiry further, thereby rendering this a substantive, political, and biocultural topic for future excavation

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