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Dykinson eBooks, Jul 11, 2023

Peeters Publishers eBooks, Aug 2, 2022

Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies

Phoenicians and Punic people constructed a liminal community in the funerary realm that this arti... more Phoenicians and Punic people constructed a liminal community in the funerary realm that this article will explore, highlighting the centrality of taste through the consumption of bread. The study will unfold in three stages: It will begin with an overview of the recent interest in the “archaeology of senses.” In a second step, the written sources and the material and visual culture related to the existence of the so-called bread of mourning will be presented. Finally, the article will discuss how taste participates actively in the creation of a sense of alterity for the funerary community.

Routledge eBooks, Oct 14, 2016

Arquitecturas sicilianas: respuestas arquitectónicas y rituales en la Sicilia occidental (ss. X-V a.C.), 2017

La alimentación en el mundo fenicio-púnico: producciones, procesos y consumos, 2020, ISBN 978-84-472-2932-1, págs. 363-384, 2020

El principal objetivo de esta tesis doctoral es devolver la agencia a las poblaciones sicilianasd... more El principal objetivo de esta tesis doctoral es devolver la agencia a las poblaciones sicilianasde la primera mitad del I Milenio a.C. mediante el analisis de sus dinamicas sociales ypoliticas. En particular, estudiar los procesos de identificacion social y la idea de comunidadque estas gentes construyeron y reconstruyeron de manera constante a lo largo de esteperiodo a traves de sus principales escenarios rituales de tipo comunitario y las distintascelebraciones que en ellos tuvieron lugar de manera periodica.

Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, 2019

LA ARQUEOLOGÍA FUNERARIA DESDE UNA PERSPECTIVA DE GÉNERO: II JORNADAS INTERNACIONALES DE ARQUEOLOGÍA Y GÉNERO, 2012

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2016

In the study of the Sicilian Iron Age, most of the works devoted to their main communal ritual sp... more In the study of the Sicilian Iron Age, most of the works devoted to their main communal ritual spaces—the so-called “acropolis”—have stuck mainly to describe both their architectures and those artifacts registered in them. However, in the realization of this practice, those objects traditionally considered as imported or exceptional have been emphasized. The return of this selective practice is that other artifacts could not be considered as extraordinary, but being also present in these spaces and, therefore, with a certain role in these celebrations, they have long been dismissed and undervalued. This is the case of all those objects that are directly related to the domestic sphere and, particularly, with those activities usually associated with the women’s world, such as cooking pots or loom weights. The invisibility of these objects relative to the domestic sphere and, above all, to the feminine sphere has led to validate and perpetuate a biased glaze over these ceremonies where only male elite actors could participate. In response to these androcentric and classist discourses, the main aim of this paper is to recover the agency of certain women in the development of these communal celebrations and to show their importance in the construction and representation of a sense of community that was created constantly through these ceremonies through the study of these long-forgotten household objects.

Historische Zeitschrift, 2015

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2015

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 2013

ABSTRACT

Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2010

Saguntum, 2010

This paper analyses a peculiar object as is the capeduncola a vessel with strong symbolic charact... more This paper analyses a peculiar object as is the capeduncola a vessel with strong symbolic character related to food rationing and distributionand the different contexts where it has been found in the Sicilian site of Monte Polizzo (8th -5th century BC.). It argues that food ...

Treballs d'Arqueologia, 2008

Abstract: Research on everyday life in Mediterranean colonial contexts and, particularly, the ana... more Abstract: Research on everyday life in Mediterranean colonial contexts and, particularly, the analysis of domestic space has enabled us to ques- ... In this paper we present an analysis of funerary spaces in Phoenician ... Resumen: El estudio de la vida en las colonias del ...

The Mummy under the bed,, 2022

Boletín de Arte, 2019

El objetivo del presente artículo es el análisis de las relaciones entre bovinos y humanos a tra... more El objetivo del presente artículo es el análisis de las relaciones entre bovinos y humanos a través de varios objetos artísticos encontrados en el asentamiento de Polizzello (Sicilia occidental) datados entre los ss. VIII-VI a. C. Concretamente, presentamos un conjunto de jarras cerámicas decoradas con bucráneos, así como también representaciones de bovinos y seres híbridos en distintos soportes cerámicos como son vasos de almacenamiento, de consumo y servicio de alimentos. En primer lugar, nos centraremos brevemente en explicar el contexto histórico y social de la isla en la Edad del Hierro, haciendo especial énfasis en sus tradiciones artísticas. Seguidamente, presentaremos el asentamiento de Polizzello y los distintos materiales de estudio. Finalmente, interpretaremos estos objetos bajo el prisma de los estudios animales para explicar la importancia de los bueyes en la participación activa de las dinámicas sociales de los humanos.

Dykinson eBooks, Jul 11, 2023

Peeters Publishers eBooks, Aug 2, 2022

Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies

Routledge eBooks, Oct 14, 2016

Arquitecturas sicilianas: respuestas arquitectónicas y rituales en la Sicilia occidental (ss. X-V a.C.), 2017

La alimentación en el mundo fenicio-púnico: producciones, procesos y consumos, 2020, ISBN 978-84-472-2932-1, págs. 363-384, 2020

Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, 2019

LA ARQUEOLOGÍA FUNERARIA DESDE UNA PERSPECTIVA DE GÉNERO: II JORNADAS INTERNACIONALES DE ARQUEOLOGÍA Y GÉNERO, 2012

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2016

Historische Zeitschrift, 2015

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2015

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 2013

ABSTRACT

Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2010

Saguntum, 2010

Treballs d'Arqueologia, 2008

The Mummy under the bed,, 2022

Boletín de Arte, 2019

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Cambridge Archaeological Journal

The Research Group in Mediterranean Archaeology: Connections, Materialities and Writing (GRACME) ... more The Research Group in Mediterranean Archaeology: Connections, Materialities and Writing (GRACME) at the Pompeu Fabra University is delighted to announce the GRACME Seminar of Social Archaeology 2022 “Excavating Emotions: Challenges and Perspectives in Archaeology”. The second meeting “Las Emociones Más Allá de la Arqueología: un Enfoque Interdisciplinar” will take place in a hybrid form on 6 July 2022. Participants will be able to join online or attend in person at the Ciutadella campus (Aula 40.113).

For further information please email Adriano Orsingher (adriano.orsingher@upf.edu), Ana Delgado Hervás (ana.delgado@upf.edu) or GRACME (gracme@upf.edu).

The Research Group in Mediterranean Archaeology: Connections, Materialities and Writing (GRACME) ... more The Research Group in Mediterranean Archaeology: Connections, Materialities and Writing (GRACME) at the Pompeu Fabra University is delighted to announce the GRACME Seminar of Social Archaeology 2022 “Excavating Emotions: Challenges and Perspectives in Archaeology”. The first meeting “The Emotional Turn: How to Study Emotions in Archaeology” will take place online on Zoom (CET) on 16 March 2022.

For further information please email Adriano Orsingher (adriano.orsingher@upf.edu), Ana Delgado Hervás (ana.delgado@upf.edu) or GRACME (gracme@upf.edu).

The Iron Age brought lasting changes to the organization of Mediterranean societies, including in... more The Iron Age brought lasting changes to the organization of Mediterranean societies, including increasing social complexity, the creation of city-states and other distinct territorial polities, the emergence of Mediterranean-wide exchange networks, and the widespread adoption of new technologies. These interconnected changes likely had a considerable impact on the economic and political organization and everyday lives of local communities, yet gender-one of the main axes around which people lives is structured-has yet to be fully integrated into this narrative. This is problematic, because traditional norms and behaviors regarding gender likely contributed to shaping local responses to these widespread changes, while also having to shift and adjust, in the long-term, to the changing economic and political context. In this session, we would like to explore this issue from a comparative, Mediterranean perspective, highlighting the diversity of local responses to broad global shifts. In particular, we are calling for contributors to focus on the ways in which the allocation of power changed as more resources became available through Mediterranean-wide exchanges and migrations, as the social organization based largely on kinship became more stratified and as the distinction between the public and the private sphere became sharper. We would like to anchor our discussion around three main points: (1) a focus on all genders in their intersection with other axes of social organization (e.g. age, status); (2) a diachronic perspective; (3) gender in its relation with culture contact: how was gender renegotiated in light of the opportunities/threats/changes that occurred with the renewal and intensification in connectivity that took place in this period?

The conference aims to bring together scholars and students who often tackle the same issues as t... more The conference aims to bring together scholars and students who often tackle the same issues as they study clay figurines and related objects from different periods and parts of the Mediterranean region. Scholars who research terracottas of illiterate societies often use anthropological and ethnographical methods, while those studying terracottas of historical periods refer to historical sources and artistic analogies. The various viewpoints and attitudes may enrich and deepen our understanding of terracotta figurines and their role in society. Several studies have revealed that food should not be examined exclusively in connection with the act of meeting a basic biological need for human subsistence. On the contrary, most of these scholars have shown that the analysis of food, foodways and food preparation and consumption practices are crucial to understanding the dynamics of ancient societies. Following these insights, this panel explores clay representations of food in its wider sense. That is, it focuses on terracottas of the edible –such as fruits, animals or bread–, human-like clay figurines undertaking activities related to food preparation, presentation and consumption, as well as clay tools related to food processing, such as clay stamps. We invite papers that present materials from diverse contexts (domestic, sacred and funerary) and different chronologies. We encourage a focus on connections with other 1 meritxell.ferrer@upf.edu; mireia.lopez@uv.es

Material cultures and daily practices play a central role in the invention and (re)production of ... more Material cultures and daily practices play a central role in the invention and (re)production of identities, politics and economics in the context of historical experiences of migration and displacement. Following this premise, the aim of this session is to analyze daily practices and materialities, especially those related to food –the way of cooking and food preparation as well as its consumption-, in the construction, manipulation and negotiation of social identities, power relations and economies of production and exchange in different Mediterranean colonial contexts. Through different study-cases, this session wants to explore the continuities, innovations and/or hybridations experimented by several Mediterranean communities between 8 th and 4 th centuries BC, relating them with the economic, political and social dynamics occurred in their specific contexts, the construction of new foodscapes as well as their local and global networks.

Actas do VI Congresso Internacional de Estudos Fenício Púnicos

Material cultures and daily practices play a central role in the invention and (re)production of ... more Material cultures and daily practices play a central role in the invention and (re)production of identities, politics and economics in the context of historical experiences of migration and displacement. Following this premise, the aim of this session is to analyze daily practices and materialities, especially those related to food -the way of cooking and food preparation as well as its consumption-, in the construction, manipulation and negotiation of social identities, power relations and economies of production and exchange in different Mediterranean colonial contexts. Through different study-cases, this session wants to explore the continuities, innovations and/or hybridations experimented by several Mediterranean communities between 8 th and 4 th centuries BC, relating them with the economic, political and social dynamics occurred in their specific contexts, the construction of new foodscapes as well as their local and global networks.

HESTIA es un proyecto de investigación, financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitivad (... more HESTIA es un proyecto de investigación, financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitivad (HAR2015-69842), cuyo principal objetivo es analizar las transformaciones en la alimentación, en las formas de cocina y preparación de alimentos y en los modos de consumo de comida y bebida que experimentaron diversas comunidades mediterráneas entre los siglos VIII y V a. C.

Durant la crisi de la COVID-19, les dones d’arreu del món s’han vist més afectades que els homes ... more Durant la crisi de la COVID-19, les dones d’arreu del món s’han vist més afectades
que els homes per la precarietat laboral, la incertesa econòmica, l’augment de
tasques no remunerades de cura i educació, i la violència masclista en l’àmbit de
la llar. S’ha produït, per tant, una regressió que fa perillar anys de progrés cap a la
igualtat de gènere i fites relacionades, com la reducció de les desigualtats
econòmiques o la construcció de societats més inclusives i justes.
L’actual no ha estat, però, l’única crisi que ha comportat canvis en patrons de
comportament, actituds i desigualtats entorn del gènere. Des de l’Antiguitat a
l’època contemporània, el passat ofereix casos d’ordre molt divers en els quals les
crisis — siguin polítiques, econòmiques, culturals o mediambientals — han
transformat rols i identitats de gènere, amb conseqüències diverses per les dones.
Analitzar aquests fenòmens i els seus efectes és crucial per arribar a una
comprensió més sofisticada i crítica de les desigualtats del present, així com per
afrontar les alteracions que inevitablement tindran lloc al llarg dels pròxims mesos
i anys a escala global.
Les jornades interdisciplinàries “Crisis i desigualtats de gènere del present al
passat” creen un espai per a aquesta reflexió inajornable. Exploraran crisis
diverses en el passat i el present de forma humanística, interdisciplinària i amb
perspectiva de gènere. Pararan una atenció especial als períodes de reconfiguració
de rols, identitats i relacions de gènere durant i després de les crisis. Acolliran
investigadores de reconegut prestigi internacional que generaran nous
coneixements per entendre i encarar els reptes de les desigualtats actuals buscant
claus d’interpretació en el passat.

Primer "Debat Transcolonial: Mirades des del cos" amb la participació de Diana D. Loren (Harvard ... more Primer "Debat Transcolonial: Mirades des del cos" amb la participació de Diana D. Loren (Harvard University) i Mireia López-Bertran (Universitat de València). Dimarts 10 de desembre del 2019, a les 16.15 a l'Aula Mercè Rodoreda (UPF-Ciutadella).

Ria BeRg-Reima Välimäki-anu kaisa koponen-antonella CoRalini, Introduction: Tangible Religion fro... more Ria BeRg-Reima Välimäki-anu kaisa koponen-antonella CoRalini, Introduction: Tangible Religion from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period Ancient World meRitxell FeRReR, More than Dwellings. Women, Rituals and Homes in Western Sicily (8th-5th Centuries BCE) simona peRna, What is in a Vase? Materiality and Semiotics of Cinerary Vases in Egyptian Stone and Vase Shapes in Roman Domestic and Funerary Contexts aude duRand & William Van andRinga, To Live or not to Live. The Lares and the Transfer of the Domicilium in a Roman Town maddalena Bassani, Gods and Cult Objects in Roman Houses. Notes for a Methodological Research