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- Cornell, Per, 1962, et al.
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Time, Built Space and the Question of the Household in the Case of Ecab, Quintana Roo, Mexico: Maya settlement organization in the late Postclassic period.
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Ingår i: For my descendants and myself, a nice and pleasant abode : agency, micro-history and built environment. Buildings in Society International BISI III, Stockholm 2017 /edited by Göran Tagesson, Per Cornell, Mark Gardiner, Liz Thomas and Katherine Weikert.. - Oxford : Archaeopress. - 9781789695816 ; , s. 67-84
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- Tagesson, Göran
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Poor widow Catharina Bergstedt, what now? : on houses, gender and agency in Early Modern Swedish towns
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Ingår i: 'For My Descendants and Myself, a Nice and Pleasant Abode'. - Oxford : Archeopress. - 9781789695816 - 9781789695823 ; , s. 156-171
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The history of Catharina Bergstedt, widow and competent historical agent in the town of Linköping in the Early modern period, challenges our methods and theories. An integrated analysis of archaeological and historical sources and methods shows a more complex situation than hitherto believed in interpretations of historical archaeology, in which the contemporary gender system has proved to consist of both possibilities and restrictions for both sexes. With the household as the fundamental societal concept and studies on a micro-scale, a better understanding of the life courses of individuals is at hand. Furthermore, a more nuanced consideration of gender relations within traditional historical archaeology seems a suitable way to reach an understanding of the actual doings of both men and women in the household.The present study, comprising case-studies on gender relations in some Swedish towns during the Early modern period including aspects of overseeing households as well as building projects from a gender perspective, identifies different aspects of agencies for both men and women in the household. It does not seem to have been unusual for a woman to oversee the household, and it was also normal for a widow to own the plot and continue the business of her late husband. Another important role was to enable the functions of the plot to continue over generations, keeping the workshop in the family. On the other hand, female building projects seem to have been rather unusual.The contextual method, important when analysing the archaeological record, seems to overestimate constructional phases, thus overestimating male agency. The phases of maintenance and use, and the periods in between the constructional contexts, are harder to explore and document, thus underestimating female agency in the stratigraphy.
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