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Call for papers, EAA 2022 Session, MULTI-PROXY APPROACHESTO KINSHIP IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD
Multi-proxy approaches to kinship in the Greco-Roman world The study of kinship in past societies is an imperative, but difficult task. On the one hand, kinship is a key aspect of human life, as it defines people’s sense of identities, their social ties and their access to rights and resources. On the other, conceptualizing and defining kinship is challenging because of its complex and fluid character and the variable forms it takes in different societies. Further problems arise when trying to assess the significance of kinship in the archaeological record: Which data should we use, which biocultural aspects should we include, and how should we analyze them? A broad range of methods - such as human osteoarchaeology, ancient DNA or biodistance analysis, contextual analysis of mortuary practices and household archaeology- has been employed. More questions arise if we study historical societies: Which other sources should we try to include? How should we use historical, iconographic, epigraphic or papyrological evidence? What is the potential and the limitations of these different datasets, and how should we integrate them? In this session, we would like to apply these questions to the Greco-Roman world which offers a wealth of archaeological and textual evidence. The ancient world is characterized by a certain degree of political or cultural unity across current national and continental boundaries, but also by marked diversity. In addition, recent attention to silenced groups - such as women, children, the elderly or enslaved people – shifts the traditional focus on male citizens or the elites, and thereby enable a more holistic discussion of kinship. We are looking for contributions which either emphasize recent methodological and/or theoretical advances in the study of past kinship, or address the problems arising when integrating archaeological and historical datasets.
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Kinship is a most significant organizing principle of human grouping, the basic matter of social categories in archaeological and ethnographic societies, and an important concept universally. However, its significance has rarely been adequately incorporated within archaeology's theoretical and interpretative practice. This article aims to not only show the potential of bringing kinship into social archaeology, but also argue that archaeology can make important contributions to wider social research. Grounded on prehistoric data, spanning from the 8th to the 4th millennium bc, and drawing on cross-cultural discussions, it explores how understandings and practices of kinship might have been constructed and enacted in the first farming communities through architecture, time, material products, burials, and rituals. In doing so, the article addresses key issues of common interest in archaeology and anthropology, inviting interdisciplinary dialogue.
Why kinship still needs anthropologists in the 21st century
Cvecek 2024 Why kinship still needs anthropologists2024 •
With the rise of ancient DNA studies in prehistoric archaeology, terms such as matriliny and patriliny are commonly used in scholarly literature. From a sociocultural anthropological perspective, however, the two terms are not as simple and unproblematic as is widely accepted among archaeogeneticists. Matriliny and patriliny are umbrella terms for societies with a wide range of political and kinship practices, with or without a state. Moreover, archaeogenetic literature has assumed specific associations with matrilineal and patrilineal descent that are not supported by sociocultural anthropology. To properly understand the diversity of human sociopolitical forms in both the deep and recent past, archaeology – in its broadest sense, including archaeogenetics – must avoid essentializing prehistoric communities without exploring the empirical nuances that are well documented ethnographically. Finally, the article calls for more engagement in debates on kinship and sociopolitical organization in prehistory from sociocultural anthropological perspectives.
The application of social identity theory to bioarchaeological research has proven relevant for accessing various dimensions of social organization and the lived experience of past peoples. Despite its recent visibility, most of this research focuses on large-scale collective identities including gender, ethnicity, and religion from the perspectives of individuals and larger social groups, while mid-scale collective identities remain largely under-investigated. Kinship is an essential mid-scale identity for which (bio)archaeology can provide deep-time perspectives, insights that are increasingly significant given the ever-changing definitions of relatedness emerging concomitantly with rapid cultural transformations and new reproductive technologies. This paper provides historical background on the practice of kinship studies in bioarchaeology, highlighting the recent resurgence of kin-focused ethnographic research. We present examples of bioarchaeological research designs that embra...
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For traditional societies, by which we mean those peoples whose worlds are permeated by kin relations and obligations, and among whom past societies such as those of Neolithic Britain are mostly to be counted, the most precious inheritance is knowledge. Inherited knowledge is of many kinds, the most overt of which is instrumental knowledge—how to make a rope from fibre, where to look for and how to utilize medicinal plants, and so on. Alongside this, however, is a plurality of less obvious but equally fundamental knowledges that include kinds of behavioural knowledge (in the sense of customs and prohibitions, for example), forms of discursive awareness (how to negotiate the social world; what to recall and recount as story and history), and understandings of esoteric beliefs and their concomitant ‘necessary’ actions. Collective cultural and customary knowledge, then, is a resource that makes possible the sustaining and renewal of human social relationships through time. There is a m...
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