Circuitos de circulación femenina : Entre lo divino y lo profano
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2006-12
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Centro de Estudios Sobre Diversidad Cultural
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En los procesos de circulación, intercambio y transformaciones que afectan a la sociedad peleobabilónica en el II milenio a.C., no puede estar ausente la “circulación de mujeres” conocido concepto de Levi-Strauss que merece ser revisado críticamente y desde una perspectiva histórica.
Los historiadores decimonónicos fundadores de una tradición historiográfica con fuerte impronta masculina, consideraron (consciente o inconscientemente) que debían velar la presencia de esa otra protagonista de la historia.
El cometido de restituir las mujeres a la historia condujo a otro, el de “restituir la historia a las mujeres”. Con el convencimiento de que sólo a través del diálogo entre disciplinas y la convergencia metodológica se puede reflexionar sobre la situación de la mujer en las sociedades antiguas, se tratará desde la perspectiva del género imbricada con los aportes de la problemática étnica y con la desigualdad social, analizar el proceso histórico conocido como Paleobailónico.
En este trabajo se privilegiarán fuentes documentales de diferente procedencia como archivos familiares y documentos epistolares sin descartar fuentes literarias, que posibiliten pensar en los circuitos de circulación femeninos.
Se interrelacionaron aspectos que tienen que ver con lo simbólico pero intensamente conectados con la base estructural de esa sociedad: los dioses y diosas viajeros por el río hacia Babilonia, los intercambios de bienes involucrados en las dotes, la circulación de productos tributos, ideas, rituales y símbolos entre otros. En la consideración que nuestra mirada atraviesa un hiato temporal y cultural, es importante que la noción reificada sobre las mujeres sea revisada y engarzada en un doble nivel de análisis que posibilite comprender una sociedad a la que ya no encontramos como sistema vivo.
In the process of circulation, the exchange and transformations that affect Ancient Babylon society in the II millennium, it cannot be absent of the concept of Levi-Strauss “circulation of women”, which deserves to be reviewed from a historical perspective. Historians from the nineteenth century, who established a historiography tradition with a strong masculine prevalence, considered (consciously or unconsciously), that they should veil the presence of women, the other main character in history. The aim of reinstating women into the history, led to “the restitution of history for the women”. With the conviction that only through the dialogue between disciplines and the methodological convergence, can we reflect on the situation of women in ancient societies, we will try – from a gender perspective and with the contributions of the ethnic problematic and the social inequality- to analyzed the historical process known as Ancient Babylon. In this work, we will privilege documental sources of different origins like family archives and letters, including literary sources that allow us to think about the circuits of feminine circulation. Different aspects concerning the symbolic field though connected with the structural bases of the Ancient Babylon society have been interrelated: the traveler gods and goddesses of the river towards Babylonia, the exchange of goods involved in the dowry, the circulation of products, tributes, ideas, rituals, and symbols among others. Considering that our approach goes through a cultural and temporal hiatus, it is important to revise the notion of women as an object or a thing and to provide a double level analysis that makes it possible to understand a society that no longer exists a living system.
In the process of circulation, the exchange and transformations that affect Ancient Babylon society in the II millennium, it cannot be absent of the concept of Levi-Strauss “circulation of women”, which deserves to be reviewed from a historical perspective. Historians from the nineteenth century, who established a historiography tradition with a strong masculine prevalence, considered (consciously or unconsciously), that they should veil the presence of women, the other main character in history. The aim of reinstating women into the history, led to “the restitution of history for the women”. With the conviction that only through the dialogue between disciplines and the methodological convergence, can we reflect on the situation of women in ancient societies, we will try – from a gender perspective and with the contributions of the ethnic problematic and the social inequality- to analyzed the historical process known as Ancient Babylon. In this work, we will privilege documental sources of different origins like family archives and letters, including literary sources that allow us to think about the circuits of feminine circulation. Different aspects concerning the symbolic field though connected with the structural bases of the Ancient Babylon society have been interrelated: the traveler gods and goddesses of the river towards Babylonia, the exchange of goods involved in the dowry, the circulation of products, tributes, ideas, rituals, and symbols among others. Considering that our approach goes through a cultural and temporal hiatus, it is important to revise the notion of women as an object or a thing and to provide a double level analysis that makes it possible to understand a society that no longer exists a living system.
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Circulación, Mujeres, Diosas /dioses, Circulation, Women, Gods/ goddesses