Contested grounds: a non-binary isotopic approach to sex and gender in precolonial coastal Brazil
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Bioarchaeology has often been pointed to as the most entrenched bastion of normative binary assumptions in gender archaeology. There is some irony to it, since bioarchaeologists are the most acquainted with the biosocial plasticity of the skeleton. In this paper, I reassess isotopic (δ13C, δ15N) and mortuary data from Armação do Sul (Florianópolis, Brazil) that was formerly analyzed from a normative male/female perspective, this time through a non-binary lens. I highlight bodily differences imprinted by dietary and mortuary practices that were oriented in the socio-material world, adding variables that speak to other forms of differentiation than sexual dimorphism and that emphasize intersectionality in social configurations.
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