EAA 2018: Abstract

In this paper, the co-organizers of the 2018 EAA AGE Session will explain why this year AGE has selected the topic of Gender and Colonialism to be explored at the 2018 EAA Annual Meeting in Barcelona. In addition, they will present the AGE (Archaeology and Gender in Europe) to those assitants to the session that are not familiarized with it.
As one of its main goals, the AGE community seeks to create a meeting place and a discussion platform for scholars interested in gender and feminist studies in archaeology and related disciplines. This year, we will discuss the effects that different processes of colonial domination had on different local sex/gender systems. In congruence with previous AGE sessions, we will cross spatial and temporal boundaries to reunite scholars that investigate how gender transformations were performed and implemented on the ground in areas both culturally and geographically distant. Our contributions encompass situations that range from the impact that New Kingdom Egypt had on Nubia and the Spanish Empire had on different areas of the Atlantic and the Pacific, to diaporic or colonial contexts in the ancient Mediterranean such as the Balearic Islands and northeast Catalonia. Issues related to coloniality of knowledge and how they affect our interpretation of the past will be also covered.

Gender; Colonialism; Ancient Mediterranean

Oral presentation

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Leila Papoli Yazdi¹

Sandra Montón-Subías^2,3
Beatríz Marín Aguilera⁴