Papers by F. Mira Green
This essay explores how objects associated with food preparation and production became subtle, ye... more This essay explores how objects associated with food preparation and production became subtle, yet powerful tools of ordinary Romans’ experiential knowledge and resistance to elite culture. By borrowing from other scholars’ work on new materialism, the pleasurable resistance of enslaved women in the American South, and knowledge creation through sensorial experiences in early modern Colombia, I attempt to recover some aspects of non-elite Romans’ physical encounters with their life worlds. I argue that both literary and visual evidence of the daily routines tied to cooking and selling food reveal instances when enslaved and ordinary Romans momentarily upended social and gender hierarchies.
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In recent years, the question of cross-cultural effects on sexual identities under colonial rule ... more In recent years, the question of cross-cultural effects on sexual identities under colonial rule became a topic of interests for archaeologists (Voss and Casella 2012; Voss 2008). These works have set the stage for new research in Mediterranean archaeology that probes questions of gender and sexuality in relation to different power dynamics produced through cross-cultural interactions and colonial expansion. Scholars have noted that research on gender and sexuality of the provincial populace is under-theorised and under-studied despite compelling arguments that these are integral to the formation of identities (Joyce 2001; Schmidt and Voss 2000). Others have observed that the physical realities of the ancient world, i.e. architecture, objects, and landscapes, created and maintained the structure of social interactions and gender performances (Severy-Hoven 2102:542; Joshel and Murnaghan 1998:18-20). These works suggest that post-colonial approaches done within the broader context of the Mediterranean world would reveal the complexity, multiplicity and particularity of ancient people, and the nuance of power relations in the physical environment (e.g. Mattingly 2011; Riva and Vella 2006; van Dommelen and Knapp 2010). Moreover, they hint at the wider implications of connections between gender and sexuality to other axes of difference (e.g. class, ethnicity, race, age, and disability).
Interdisciplinary in its scope, this session takes up questions of gender/sexuality within diverse societies of the ancient Mediterranean world, from Prehistory to Roman times. The goal is to present innovative research that is theoretically informed and contextualised in personal and institutionalised forms of gender and sexuality. The session will explore various social discourses through which gender and sexuality are shaped within specific Mediterranean cultural contexts. It aims to instigate a discussion on the ways gender/sexuality studies can be integrated into broader archaeological debates of ancient Mediterranean colonialism, cultural change, relationships of power, and the construction of the material world.
Please submit abstracts by 16th of February 2015 via the EAA website (http://eaaglasgow2015.com/call-for-papers/).
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Papers by F. Mira Green
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Interdisciplinary in its scope, this session takes up questions of gender/sexuality within diverse societies of the ancient Mediterranean world, from Prehistory to Roman times. The goal is to present innovative research that is theoretically informed and contextualised in personal and institutionalised forms of gender and sexuality. The session will explore various social discourses through which gender and sexuality are shaped within specific Mediterranean cultural contexts. It aims to instigate a discussion on the ways gender/sexuality studies can be integrated into broader archaeological debates of ancient Mediterranean colonialism, cultural change, relationships of power, and the construction of the material world.
Please submit abstracts by 16th of February 2015 via the EAA website (http://eaaglasgow2015.com/call-for-papers/).
Interdisciplinary in its scope, this session takes up questions of gender/sexuality within diverse societies of the ancient Mediterranean world, from Prehistory to Roman times. The goal is to present innovative research that is theoretically informed and contextualised in personal and institutionalised forms of gender and sexuality. The session will explore various social discourses through which gender and sexuality are shaped within specific Mediterranean cultural contexts. It aims to instigate a discussion on the ways gender/sexuality studies can be integrated into broader archaeological debates of ancient Mediterranean colonialism, cultural change, relationships of power, and the construction of the material world.
Please submit abstracts by 16th of February 2015 via the EAA website (http://eaaglasgow2015.com/call-for-papers/).