Under the influence of phenomenological approaches, a semiotic perspective on the body is being replaced in archaeology by analysis of the production and experience of lived bodies in the past through the juxtaposition of traces of body practices, idealized representations, and evidence of the effects of habitual gestures, postures, and consumption practices on the corporal body. On the basis of a shared assumption that social understandings of the body were created and reproduced through associations with material culture, archaeology of the body has proceeded from two theoretical positions: the body as the scene of display and the body as artifact. Today, the body as a site of lived experience, a social body, and site of embodied agency, is replacing prior static conceptions of an archaeology of the body as a public, legible surface.

Archaeology of the Body

Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past turns what is usually seen as a method for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it reveals fresh ways of looking both at ourselves and modern society as well as the discipline of archaeology. This volume represents the most recent research in this area and examines a variety of contexts including: * Art Deco * landfills * miner strikes * college fraternities * an abandoned council house.

Archaeologies of the contemporary past

▪ Abstract This paper traces the conjunction of two interrelated epistemic phenomena that have begun to shape the discipline since the early 1990s. The first entails theorizing social identity in past societies: specifically, how social lives are inscribed by the experiences of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and so on. The other constitutes the rise of a politicized and ethical archaeology that now recognizes its active role in contemporary culture and is enunciated through the discourses of nationalism, sociopolitics, postcolonialism, diaspora, and globalism. Both trends have been tacitly shaped by anthropological and social theory, but they are fundamentally driven by the powerful voices of once marginalized groups and their newfound place in the circles of academic legitimacy. I argue that our disciplinary reticence to embrace the politics of identity, both in our investigations of the past and our imbrications in the present, has much to do with archaeology's lack of reflexivity, both personal and disc...

The Intersections of Identity and Politics in Archaeology

The Ethnoarchaeology of Juvenile Foragers: Shellfishing Strategies among Meriam Children

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World is the first interdisciplinary, methodologically based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world while weaving textual, visual, and archaeological evidence into its approach. Prominent scholars tackle the myriad problems inherent in the interpretation of the evidence, and consider the biases and interpretive categories inherited from centuries of scholarship. Essays and case studies cover an unprecedented breadth of chronological and geographical range, genres, and themes.

A companion to women in the ancient world

Introduction: on the incompleteness of archaeological narratives. Section 1 Theory and review: ambivalent bodies: gender and medieval archaeology a viable past in a pictorial present? the power of gender archaeology re-engendering gender: some theoretical and methodological concerns on a burgeoning archaeological pursuit hearth and home: the timing of maintenance activities at home in the long Iron Age: a dialogue between households and individuals in cultural reproduction commentary. Section 2 Writing gender: skin scrapers and pottery makers? 'invisible' women in prehistory body imagery in the Aegean Neolithic: ideological implications of anthropomorphic figurines engendering domination: a structural and contextual analysis of Minoan Neopalotial bronze figurines changing gender relations in the later prehistory of eastern Hungary death becomes her: the Athenian funeral revisited female into male won't go: gender and early christian ascetism housewives, warriors and slaves? gender in Anglo-Saxon burials commentary. Section 3 Writing children and childhood: invisibility as a symptom of gender categories in archaeology engendering children, engendering archaeology kid Knapping: the missing children in lithic analysis women and children in prehistory: resources sharing and social stratification at the mesolithic-neolithic transition in the Ukraine age, gender and biological reality in the early Bronze Age cemetery at Mokrin commentary. Conclusion: the visibility of the invisible.

Invisible people and processes : writing gender and childhood into European archaeology

Review Article: Running the Gamut: Gender, Girls, and Goddesses@@@Gender and Archaeology@@@Invisible People and Processes: Writing Gender and Childhood into European Archaeology@@@Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women@@@The Concept of the Goddess@@@From the Realm of the Ancestors: An Anthology in Honor of Marija Gimbutas

Background: Video group consultations (VGCs) are one approach to delivering care using a virtual platform for a group of patients with the same or similar health conditions. However, little is known about the use and uptake of VGCs in the UK.Aim: To describe the use and uptake of VGCs by UK general practice staff during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.Method: A cross-sectional design using an online questionnaire. Data analysis adopted the principles of content analysis and demographic data were analysed descriptively.Findings: A total of 36 participants completed the questionnaire across nine UK regions and representing 36 general practices. A lack of standardisation regarding the use and uptake of VGCs across UK general practices was identified, hindering implementation, scale-up and delivery.Conclusion: While the VGC model looks promising, further research is needed to demonstrate its use and uptake, developing a more robust evidence base for implementation. 

Eleanor Scott

Papers

Invisible people and processes : writing gender and childhood into European archaeology

Use of video group consultations by general practice staff during the COVID-19 pandemic