Introduction to “Binary Binds”: Deconstructing Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Archaeological Practice

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• 作者：Lara Ghisleni ; Alexis M. Jordan…
• 关键词：Sex ; Gender ; Sexuality ; The body ; Binaries ; Intersectionality ; Practice
• 刊名：Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：23
• 期：3
• 页码：765-787
• 全文大小：573 KB
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Social Sciences
  Archaeology
  Anthropology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-7764
• 卷排序：23

文摘

Gender archaeology has made significant strides toward deconstructing the hegemony of binary categorizations. Challenging dichotomies such as man/woman, sex/gender, and biology/culture, approaches informed by poststructuralist, feminist, and queer theories have moved beyond essentialist and universalist identity constructs to more nuanced configurations. Despite the theoretical emphasis on context, multiplicity, and fluidity, binary starting points continue to streamline the spectrum of variability that is recognized, often reproducing normative assumptions in the evidence. The contributors to this special issue confront how sex, gender, and sexuality categories condition analytical visibility, aiming to develop approaches that respond to the complexity of theory in archaeological practice. The papers push the ontological and epistemological boundaries of bodies, personhood, and archaeological possibility, challenging a priori assumptions that contain how sex, gender, and sexuality categories are constituted and related to each other. Foregrounding intersectional approaches that engage with ambiguity, variability, and difference, this special issue seeks to “de-contain” categories, assumptions, and practices from “binding” our analytical gaze toward only certain kinds of persons and knowledges, in interpretations of the past and practices in the present.