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J Social Archaeol 8 (1)
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Title:
J Social Archaeol 8 (1)
Series
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Series:
Journal of Social Archaeology
Volume
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Volume:
8 (1)
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Publication Type:
Journal
Editor
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Editor:
Lynn Meskell
Joshua Pollard
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Publisher:
Sage Publications
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Year of Publication:
2008
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://jsa.sagepub.com/content/vol8/issue1/
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Created Date:
21 Feb 2008
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Abstract
Religious place and its interaction with urbanization in the Roman era
Adam C Rogers
37 - 62
The article examines the issue of urbanization in Roman Britain and its interaction with places of the Late pre-Roman Iron Age. It is argued that many of these places were complex and highly meaning-laden landscapes and often incorporated ritually imbued watery locations as well as culturally significant activities. The author contends that the modern western conception of place differs vastly from the past when places were important ways of conceptualizing, experiencing and understanding the world and they were constructed through human action, memory and experience and interaction; `landscape' is largely a modern term and may be inadequate for attempting to understand place and space in the past. The location of Roman towns in Britain has often been considered predominantly in strategic, economic and practical terms but they will also have been interacting with pre-Roman places, which in turn may have gone on to influence the nature of urbanism itself.
Conceiving sex: fomenting a feminist bioarchaeology
Pamela L Geller
113 - 138
To highlight the shortcomings in bioarchaeology's analysis of sex (a fundamental category of skeletal analysis) as dualistic, innate, and unchanging, the author stresses several ideas derived from feminist-inspired scholarship. In the past fifteen years, many of these scholars have worked to demystify sex as a fixed, dichotomous entity by historicizing the concept and detailing cross-cultural understandings. The author teases out biomedicine's comprehension of sex, as evidenced by discourse and practice. Biomedicine provides the larger epistemic frame for bioarchaeologists' sexing criteria, as well as the meanings that many investigators attach to discernible, biological difference. Ultimately, drawing on feminist-inspired theories allows for critical reflection as well as exploration of alternative issues. Such integration supplies fertile ground upon which biologically oriented scholars may sow the seeds of needed disciplinary changes.