Copper Age transformations in gender identities. An Essay. In: J. K. Koch& W. Kirleis (eds.): Gender Transformations in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies. Sidestone Press, Leiden, pp. 205-220. ISBN: 9789088908217

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Copper Age transformations in gender identities. An Essay. In: J. K. Koch& W. Kirleis (eds.): Gender Transformations in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies. Sidestone Press, Leiden, pp. 205-220. ISBN: 9789088908217

Original language description

Reconsideration of some previous archaeological interpretations of gender may offer much more variability and freedom to our current understanding of gender identity. The perception of gender in archaeological interpretations commonly reflects our current social reality. In our Christian Western worldview, the traditional gender categories of men and women are based on biology and presume the primacy of the reproduction in human societies. Alternative social roles were judged as deviations by the biased majority. The extremely difficult position of homosexuals in 20th Century Western society was caused mainly by the lack of an appropriate and commonly recognised gender category. No surprisingly, the concept of transsexualism developed in cultures that only recognized and valued two gender categories based on biological sex while the tribes in North America and Siberia had gender categories ready for such cases. In Western society, Christian norms instigated a social neglect of homosexuals mainly due to the absence of appropriate gender categories. As archaeologists, we should change our approach to the interpretation of past societies because our current gender categories do not always correspond to those of a former reality.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Gender identity; European Copper Age; Burial rites; Ancient DNA; Gender interpretation

ISBN

978-90-8890-821-7

Number of pages of the result

16

Pages from-to

205-220

Number of pages of the book

502

Publisher name

Sidestone Press Academics

Place of publication

Leiden

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