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Warriors and other Men: Notions of Masculinity from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age in Scandinavia
Lisbeth Skogstrand
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Paperback. This book questions whether androcentric archaeology has taught us anything about prehistoric men and their masculinities. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 291 x 18. Weight in Grams: 710.
What is considered masculine is not something given and innate to males but determined by cultural ideas and ideals constructed through performative practices – today and in the past. This book questions whether androcentric archaeology has taught us anything about prehistoric men and their masculinities. Starting from broad discussions of feminist theory and critical men’s studies, this study examines how notions of masculinity are expressed in cremation burials from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Roman Period (1100 BC - 400 AD) in Eastern Norway and Funen in Denmark. It is argued that notions of masculinity were ... Read more
What is considered masculine is not something given and innate to males but determined by cultural ideas and ideals constructed through performative practices – today and in the past. This book questions whether androcentric archaeology has taught us anything about prehistoric men and their masculinities. Starting from broad discussions of feminist theory and critical men’s studies, this study examines how notions of masculinity are expressed in cremation burials from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Roman Period (1100 BC - 400 AD) in Eastern Norway and Funen in Denmark. It is argued that notions of masculinity were ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Archaeopress
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784914172
SKU
V9781784914172
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About Lisbeth Skogstrand
Lisbeth Skogstrand is currently employed by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage to develop a national research program for submerged archaeology. She has previously been a lecturer in prehistoric archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo and has her PhD on masculinity in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age from the ... Read more
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