Is Androcentric Archaeology Really About
Men?
ABSTRACT
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The article starts with a discussion of the relation between feminist
archaeology and gender archaeology followed by a short account of how
androcentrism may influence on archaeological research. By exploring two
representative examples I will argue that androcentric archaeology mainly
reproduces stereotype images of men and do not provide much new or
real knowledge about prehistoric men or understandings of masculinity.
Consequently, there is a need to study prehistoric men as gendered and I
will argue that to include studies in men and masculinity into a gender
archaeology based on feminist theory might challenge androcentric
archaeological studies just as much as to study women in prehistory.