Gender Tension in Figurines in South-East Europe

  • TITLU în română: Tensiuni de gen în figurinele din sud-estul Europei
  • Subiect: Within discrete developments in different European figurine traditions there seem to be elements of a possibly generalized (though not uniform) pattern of increasing contestation of the relative dominance and sensuality of early female figurines. These elements might reflect the playing out of gender tensions inherent in the ritual and structural model of the Neolithic package in SE Europe which spread northwards from Greece – tensions which may ultimately have contributed to the as yet unexplained disappearance of figurines themselves. Further studies of individual cultures and including other aspects such as mortuary data (abundant in some cases but scant in most) may help to assess the validity of the ideas presented here. Whatever the merits of particular interpretations in this paper, however, I hope to have persuaded some readers of the wider potential of analysing representations of both maleness and sensuality in these horizons.
  • Limba de redactare: engleză
  • Secţiunea: Materiale şi cercetări arheologice
  • Vezi publicația: Memoria Antiquitatis: MemAntiq
  • Editura: „Constantin Matasă”
  • Loc publicare: Piatra Neamţ
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2007
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: XXIV; anul 2007; subtitlu: Acta Musei Petrodavensis
  • Paginaţia: 191-198
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