THE WOMAN AND PREHISTORY. SOME QUESTIONS ON THE TRADITION AND TRANSLATION OF THE WOMAN-MOTHER AND WOMAN-GODDESS IN PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY “Conimbriga” LIV (2015) p. 5-25

Authors

  • Ana Vale Centro de Estudos em Arqueologia, Artes e Ciências do Património. Departamento de Ciências e Técnicas do Património. Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8657_54_1

Keywords:

Recent Prehistory, Woman/Man, Human Being

Abstract

The traditional construction of narratives about recent Prehistory is founded on a set of preconceptions taken as natural by the patriarchal order of the western world. Is it possible to translate objects into activities, and associate each activity with a specific sex? After decades of feminist critic and gender studies, can Portuguese archaeology continue to perpetuate androcentric discourses? How can women be rescued from silence and from the margins of past discourses without falling to the temptation of reproducing the stereotypical image of women in the past (as mother and goddess), and how can a past that talks about human beings (instead of males and females) be constructed?

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Published

2015-12-20

How to Cite

Vale, A. (2015). THE WOMAN AND PREHISTORY. SOME QUESTIONS ON THE TRADITION AND TRANSLATION OF THE WOMAN-MOTHER AND WOMAN-GODDESS IN PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY “Conimbriga” LIV (2015) p. 5-25. Conimbriga, 54, pp. 5-25. https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8657_54_1

Issue

Vol. 54 (2015): Conímbriga v. 54

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Articles

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