Descripción del proyecto
Explicar miles de años de desigualdad de género
A lo largo de la historia, las mujeres se han enfrentado a la discriminación, y la igualdad de género avanza a paso de tortuga. En algunos países, la situación está en retroceso. ¿Siempre se ha tratado de forma diferente a hombres y mujeres? ¿En qué se basa la desigualdad de género? ¿Cuándo y por qué dejaron hombres y mujeres de ser iguales? Para responder a estas preguntas, el proyecto financiado con fondos europeos WOMAM investigará la desigualdad de género a finales de la prehistoria. Combinará la arqueología y la antropología social en un estudio del Neolítico, la Edad del Cobre y la Edad del Bronce. El estudio se centrará en la movilidad, que es un factor relevante en la explicación de la aparición de la desigualdad de género. También estudiará el vínculo entre los patrones residenciales matrilocales y una mayor igualdad, y los patrones patrilocales y una mayor desigualdad.
Objetivo
In the last years, the inclusion of gender perspective in Archaeology has had a strong impact, contributing to a deep transformation of the discipline in several aspects as hypothesis proposal, methodology or interpretation of results. Unlike other European or American countries, in Spain this renovation has not accomplished the same level of development, partly because of the scarcity of funding. Despite growing social interest, there is a major deficit in the knowledge we have about the origin of gender inequality. The way to inequality between men and women took place during the last phases of Prehistory, a period to which we approach mainly by Archaeology. Through this project, we aim to contribute to the advance in this research field, continuing a trajectory already started but from an interdisciplinary methodology which allow us to go further.
Specifically, the project focuses on the analysis of gender inequality in Late Prehistory through the study of mobility. Social Anthropology and Ethnography studies poses a link between matrilocal residential patterns and more equality, on one hand, and patrilocal patterns and more inequality, on the other. It suggests that women mobility constitutes a relevant factor in the analysis of sexual inequality, opening the door to the proposal of hypothesis that connect such aspect to the origin of gender inequality in Prehistory. At the same time, in Archaeology, the study of mobility through strontium and oxygen stable isotopes allow us to approach to residential patterns in the past. Our aim is to combine both Social Anthropology and Archaeology in the study of Neolithic, Copper and Bronze Age, key periods in the study of social complexity, and to define better when and why women and men became unequal.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
41004 Sevilla
España