De género a cuerpo: una reconceptualización y sus implicaciones para la interpretación arqueológica
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Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad
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El presente trabajo resume algunos de los objetivos originales de la
arqueología de género y sus influencias, además de su estado actual. Aunque
las principales exponentes de la arqueología de género se vincularon
conscientemente y claramente con el feminismo y la crítica social, existe
otra corriente que propone separar el estudio de género de las metas
políticas del feminismo. No obstante, dentro de ambos campos (feministas y
no feministas) hay limitaciones con el concepto de género y los objetivos
supuestamente ‘científicos’ adoptados en la mayoría de los trabajos que
utilizan al género como parte del análisis. Por lo tanto, hay una necesidad
de adoptar teorías feministas alternativas en arqueología. El presente
trabajo sirve como una introducción básica a una literatura alternativa –
los trabajos de las llamadas feministas de la ‘diferencia sexual’ y la
teoría ‘queer’ –, en el cual se explora sus ideas acerca de sexo/género y
las consecuentes implicaciones para los estudios arqueológicos. Así se
concluye que las fuentes teóricas nombradas son necesarias para estudiar la
relación entre cultura material, sexo/género y cuerpo, dejando en claro que
los objetos materiales que nos rodean no sólo reflejan categorías fijas e
innatas, sino que están íntimamente involucradas en la producción y
mantenimiento de categorías e identidades en general que son inherentemente
inestables y variables.
In this article, some of the original objectives and influences, as well as the current state of the archaeology of gender, are outlined. Although the principal exponents of the archaeology of gender self-consciously established a close link to feminism and social critique, there is another current that would like to separate the study of gender from feminist political goals. Nonetheless, within both camps (feminists and non-feminists) there are limitations with the concept of gender and the supposedly ‘scientific’ objectives adopted in the majority of work that uses gender as part of the analysis. As a consequence, there is a need to adopt alternative feminist theory in archaeology. This article is a basic introduction to an alternative literature – the work of the sexual difference feminists and queer theory – in which their ideas concerning sex/gender and the consequent implications for archaeological studies is explored. It is concluded that these sources of theory are necessary for a critical study of the relationship between material culture, sex/gender and bodies. It becomes clear that the material things that surround us do not merely reflect fixed and innate categories, but rather they are intimately bound up in the production and maintenance of inherently unstable and changeable categories and identities.
Fil: Alberti, Benjamín. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina.
In this article, some of the original objectives and influences, as well as the current state of the archaeology of gender, are outlined. Although the principal exponents of the archaeology of gender self-consciously established a close link to feminism and social critique, there is another current that would like to separate the study of gender from feminist political goals. Nonetheless, within both camps (feminists and non-feminists) there are limitations with the concept of gender and the supposedly ‘scientific’ objectives adopted in the majority of work that uses gender as part of the analysis. As a consequence, there is a need to adopt alternative feminist theory in archaeology. This article is a basic introduction to an alternative literature – the work of the sexual difference feminists and queer theory – in which their ideas concerning sex/gender and the consequent implications for archaeological studies is explored. It is concluded that these sources of theory are necessary for a critical study of the relationship between material culture, sex/gender and bodies. It becomes clear that the material things that surround us do not merely reflect fixed and innate categories, but rather they are intimately bound up in the production and maintenance of inherently unstable and changeable categories and identities.
Fil: Alberti, Benjamín. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina.
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Arqueología de género, Feminismo, Crítica social, Sexo, Siglo XX-Segunda mitad, Diferencia de género