Interview with Barbara Voss Gender Issues (original) (raw)

by the archaeologist Ph.D. Barbara Voss, an anthropology professor at Stanford University and highly recognized in the field for her studies in Gender. The interviewers were Camila M. Wichers (UFG), Denise Schaan (UFPA), Glaucia Sene (UERJ), Marlene Castro Ossami de Moura (PUC Goiás) and Sibeli A. Viana (PUC Goiás). This interview was kindly translated into the Portuguese language version by Lorena Araújo de Oliveira Borges (UnB/Capes). Barbara Voss: First I would like to thank Glaucia Malerba Sene (UERJ), Sibeli A. Viana (PUC Goiás / IGPA), and Marlene Ossami de Moura (PUC Goiás / IGPA) for their kind invitation to this interview in Habitus. I also would like to thank Professor Denise Shaan, Professor Camila Wichers, Professor Sibeli Viana, Professor Marlene Ossami, and Professor Glaucia Sene for posing such an interesting series of questions. Your inquiries have given me an opportunity both to reflect on previous research and to think carefully about the current and future state of archaeological research on gender. 1. Denise Schaan: You were one of the first scholars to advocate for the importance of sexuality studies in archaeology. Do you feel that the book, organized by you and Schmidt (Archaeologies of Sexuality, 2000), had an impact in the field of gender studies in archaeology? Barbara Voss: When Rob Schmidt and I began to collaboration on Archaeologies of Sexuality (Schmidt and Voss 2000) in the mid-1990s, we were graduate students at