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Communication invitée du thème
Regards actuels sur les femmes dans les sociétés du passé : constructions sociales, perspectives bio-culturelles et lectures archéo-anthropologiques
The bioarchaeology of gender: state of the field, problems and future directions

La bioarchéologie du genre : état des lieux, problèmes et orientations futures
John E. Robb

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1Bioarchaeologists have been using skeletal evidence to study male-female differences and other possible forms of gender for almost a generation now. In this talk, I review the field, its basic concepts and what we have learned about biology and gender differences. Three brief case studies are used: embodied lives (for example, what skeletal studies tell us about being male or female in medieval England), violence and gender in prehistoric Europe as an example of how gender relates to long-term social change, and the intersectionality of gender, age and social class in late prehistoric and Classical Europe. Finally, we discuss unresolved conceptual and empirical problems and new ways to develop the field.

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John E. Robb, “Communication invitée du thème
Regards actuels sur les femmes dans les sociétés du passé : constructions sociales, perspectives bio-culturelles et lectures archéo-anthropologiques
The bioarchaeology of gender: state of the field, problems and future directions”
Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris [Online], 35(S) | 2023, Online since 14 January 2023, connection on 31 March 2023. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/bmsap/10469; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/bmsap.10469

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John E. Robb

Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Jer39[at]cam.ac.uk

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