Att transcendera det normativa : Om gränsöverskridande vikingatida genus med ett transgenderperspektiv, i Vivallens grav 9 och Birka grav Bj 581 / To transcend the normative :  About transgressions in Viking Age gender with a transgender-perspective, in grave 9 from Vivallen and grave Bj 581 from Birka

Description

This essay aims to introduce perspectives from transgender studies into archaeology´s gender analysis, by re-examining two graves. The essay examines two graves, grave 9 from Vivallen, and grave Bj 581 from Birka, Sweden. These two graves are examples of graves with a difference in archaeological gender assessment, and sex as determined by osteology and DNA-analysis. The essay discusses the grave material, and the written sources, to examine how people in the Viking Age with non-normative gender-expressions can be understood using tools from queer-and transgender studies, with the aim to not make cis-normativity the default interpretation

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1. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353395

Tags

Transgender studies

gender

Birka

Vivallen

Viking Age

Transgender studies

genus

Birka

Vivallen

vikingatid

Archaeology

Arkeologi

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-353395
Date	January 2018
Creators	Holmgren, Felicia
Publisher	Uppsala universitet, Arkeologi
Source Sets	DiVA Archive at Upsalla University
Language	Swedish
Detected Language	English
Type	Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Format	application/pdf
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess