Age, Gender and Status in Macedonian Society, 550-300 BCE

Intersectional Approaches to Mortuary Archaeology

Elina M Salminen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-2444-5 (ISBN)

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Provides large-scale analysis of age, gender and status in Macedonian society

Building on the largest sample of Archaic to Hellenistic burials from Macedon synthesized to date, this work provides new insight into the society that gave birth to Philip II and Alexander the Great. An intersectional focus on gender, age, and status reveals the lives of Macedonians only rarely discussed, from non-elite men to women and children. Through quantitative analysis and case-studies, the reader gets a view of the complexity and nuance of a society sometimes reduced to mighty warriors and fierce royal women. Change over time is also discussed, introducing depth into the historical narrative that is largely limited to the Late Classical and Hellenistic periods. Finally, the book addresses the promise and challenges of applying intersectionality, a framework that is immensely fruitful but which was developed for contemporary contexts, to archaeological contexts.

Elina M. Salminen, PhD, is the Associate Director for Humanities Initiatives at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research has focused on what the mortuary record can teach us about the living in general, and about Macedonians in particular. She is an archaeologist and has worked extensively across Greece, with a focus on the archaeology of ancient households at Kastro Kallithea and Olynthos. In her current work and research, she continues to think deeply about the resonances of the ancient world in our modern communities, with a particular interest in how we can teach about the past in a way that empowers students in the present.

Dedication

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

PART I: Mortuary Theory and Macedonian Mortuary Behaviour

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical Frameworks and Methodological Approaches to the Mortuary Record

3. Macedonian Mortuary Behaviour

PART II: Social Personae

4. ‘Arrows in the Hand of a Mighty Man’: Children’s Burials

5. Phialai and Family Feeling: Women

6. War and Wine Sacks: Macedonian Men

PART III: Hierarchy and Variation

7. Visible Monuments, Hidden Value: Hierarchy

8. Regional and Diachronic Variation

9. Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Intersectionality in Classical Antiquity
Zusatzinfo	41 black and white illustrations, 31 colour illustrations, 15 black and white tables
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-3995-2444-5 / 1399524445
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-2444-5 / 9781399524445
Zustand	Neuware