Gender, Conflict, and Weapons in the 17th Century North Atlantic World

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper is an examination of the documented historical experiences and material culture of armed conflict in the North Atlantic World within the gender perspective. Through the lens of conflict-based contexts, I explore how gender-based differences in status and power shaped the lives of women from diverse backgrounds in New Netherland. Within economic, domestic, political, and religious spheres, how do women encounter armed violence? What are the short-term and long-term consequences of violent acts for its agents and material world? Exploring the impacts of armed conflicts reveals the entanglement of gender, identity, and power dynamics and draws in communities without easily defined borders.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022   •
• More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade

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