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

Intersectional Approaches to Mortuary Archaeology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Elina M Salminen, Elina M (Associate Director for Humanities Initiatives) Salminen, Elina M. Salminen

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Provides large-scale analysis of age, gender and status in Macedonian societyDraws on a database of over 1,100 graves for a large-scale picture of Macedonian burialsDiscusses the applicability of intersectional approaches to a context with scarce textual sourcesContributes to the burgeoning discussion on children in AntiquityArgues gender roles were, on one hand, clearly distinct but also showed some fluidity depending on statusMoves discussion of Macedonia away from a few exceptional individuals of the late Classical and Hellenistic period to a diachronic and large-scale study of communities in the regionBuilding 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-12-06
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt698 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieIntersectionality in Classical Antiquity
Antal sidor328
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399524445

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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.

DedicationList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPART I: Mortuary Theory and Macedonian Mortuary Behaviour1. Introduction2. Theoretical Frameworks and Methodological Approaches to the Mortuary Record3. Macedonian Mortuary BehaviourPART II: Social Personae4. ‘Arrows in the Hand of a Mighty Man’: Children’s Burials5. Phialai and Family Feeling: Women6. War and Wine Sacks: Macedonian MenPART III: Hierarchy and Variation7. Visible Monuments, Hidden Value: Hierarchy8. Regional and Diachronic Variation9. ConclusionAppendicesBibliographyIndex

In this ground-breaking study Elina Salminen explores the dynamics of Macedonian society in the crucial period leading up to the kingdom’s emergence as a major power in the eastern Mediterranean. By bringing together evidence of burials and their accompanying assemblages from a wide range of sites and viewing the material through the lens of mortuary and social theory, Salminen is able to reveal Macedonian society in unprecedented breadth and detail.