Women and Ritual at Teotihuacan, Mexico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Role of Women in Mesoamerican Ritual" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Teotihuacan is a complex multiethnic urban metropolis whose history is slowly becoming more nuanced after more than 100 years of research. Despite the recent attention that this Mesoamerican city has received, we still have many questions, among them, about the role of women, their life histories, their identities, and their role in the ritual life of the city. Recent work has looked at figurines and funerary analysis, centering a better understanding of gender identities at the site. In this paper, I would like to draw on those studies but also provide a discussion of the intersection of women, hierarchy, and ethnicity in the ritual life of Teotihuacan during the Early Classic. I hope to interrogate the complexities of gender construction at this important city.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Role of Women in Mesoamerican Ritual   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36081.0