Girling the girl and boying the boy: The production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica

2024-12-06 Classification：Archaeology Click()
Author：Joyce, RA

Article Title：Girling the girl and boying the boy: The production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica

Abstract：
Drawing on the work of Judith Butler, I analyse practices through which lifecycle transitions were marked on the bodies of sixteenth-century Aztec children. Because the production of disciplined adults was socially so significant, it was also profoundly conservative. I examine implications of this ethnohistoric study for earlier societies that formed part of a Mesoamerican longue duree. The interpretation of archaeologically excavated material is transformed when related to the life course. Examples discussed include new perspective on Formative period (c. 1500-400 BC) costume ornaments, conventions of figural representation, and feasting in domestic quarters.

Keywords:  Aztec; Mesoamerica; gender childhood; ritual; costume

DOI: 10.1080/713781489

Source：WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY

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