Engendering context. Context as gendered practice in the early Bronze Age of the Upper Thames Valley, UK

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7175153
AutoresJoanna Sofaer Derevenski, Joanna Sofaer (0000-0001-6328-8636, University of Southampton, autor de correspondencia)
Año2002
Volumen5
Número2
Páginas191-211
Fecha de publicación2002-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-9571 • E-ISSN: 1741-2722
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14619571020050020301
OpenAlexW2036125164
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas37

This article explores the use of context in relation to the articulation and understanding of gender. Context can be regarded as gendered practice. Focusing on mortuary settings in the early Bronze Age of the Upper Thames Valley, it examines ways that people took gender into account in complex decisions involved in burial and the construction of difference. Here, men and women were conceptualized in distinct ways that were not necessarily equivalent. Difference was expressed in terms of degrees of complexity of intersections between sex and other social categories. Beaker burial contexts were active and engendered material media for social relations

Archaeology · Articulation (sociology · Beaker · Bronze Age · Context (archaeology · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Social environment · Social science · Sociology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Gender Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law