Cuerpo, cultura material y género entre los Gumuz y Dats’in (Etiopía)
- 1 Departamento de Prehistoria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.(España)
ISSN: 1131-6993, 1988-2327
Año de publicación: 2017
Título del ejemplar: Etnoarqueologías desde las instituciones españolas
Volumen: 28
Número: 2
Páginas: 445-460
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Complutum
Resumen
En este texto se intentan analizar algunos de los mecanismos a través de los que se construye la “doble subalternidad” de las mujeres (respecto a los hombres de su grupo, y la del grupo respecto a grupos vecinos) en dos sociedades orales que viven en la zona de Metema, en el noroeste de Etiopía, junto a la frontera con Sudán: los Gumuz y los Dats’in. Se sostiene que la subalternidad se asocia a formas de identidad relacional, y que ésta se construye a través del cuerpo y la cultura material, por lo que cabe esperar: 1) que existan elementos de cultura material y marcas corporales que puedan identificarse como “tecnologías del yo”, y 2) que esos elementos corporales y materiales aparezcan tanto en hombres como en mujeres, pero que dupliquen o intensifiquen su presencia en el caso de las últimas. Tras desarrollar brevemente el concepto de “identidad relacional” y de situar a Gumuz y Dats’in en sus respectivos contextos históricos, el texto se centrará en el análisis del papel que juegan las cuentas de colores y la inscripción del grupo el cuerpo de las mujeres.
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