The representation of phalli in Neolithic Thessaly, Greece
This paper is an attempt to elucidate a rather understudied aspect of Neolithic imagery from Thessaly, Greece, objects representing phalli, and at the same time to consider the possibility that gender was not a prominent structuring principle in the past, allowing for the fact that phalli did not el...
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2010-12-01
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| description | This paper is an attempt to elucidate a rather understudied aspect of Neolithic imagery from Thessaly, Greece, objects representing phalli, and at the same time to consider the possibility that gender was not a prominent structuring principle in the past, allowing for the fact that phalli did not elicit a pervasive binary categorization of bodies, but instead were invoked in specific circumstances with particular objectives. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3aaeffb7208147b69ca37f7a4d811b6c2023-01-18T09:21:09ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Documenta Praehistorica1408-967X1854-24922010-12-013710.4312/dp.37.19The representation of phalli in Neolithic Thessaly, GreeceStratos Nanoglou0Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology,University of Thessaly, VolosThis paper is an attempt to elucidate a rather understudied aspect of Neolithic imagery from Thessaly, Greece, objects representing phalli, and at the same time to consider the possibility that gender was not a prominent structuring principle in the past, allowing for the fact that phalli did not elicit a pervasive binary categorization of bodies, but instead were invoked in specific circumstances with particular objectives.https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/1978gendermaterialityrepresentationphallifigurines |
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| title | The representation of phalli in Neolithic Thessaly, Greece |
| title_full | The representation of phalli in Neolithic Thessaly, Greece |
| title_fullStr | The representation of phalli in Neolithic Thessaly, Greece |
| title_full_unstemmed | The representation of phalli in Neolithic Thessaly, Greece |
| title_short | The representation of phalli in Neolithic Thessaly, Greece |
| title_sort | representation of phalli in neolithic thessaly greece |
| topic | gender materiality representation phalli figurines |
| url | https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/1978 |
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