Underwater archaeology and gender

• Grant number: 13/08382-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: September 01, 2013
• End date: December 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Archeology - Theory and Methods in Archaeology
• Principal Investigator: Pedro Paulo Abreu Funari
• Grantee: Marina Fontolan
• Supervisor: Lynn Meskell
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Stanford University, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/13806-8 - The images of underwater archaeology and the question of gender: a postmodern reading, BP.MS

Abstract

Underwater archaeology might be considered one of the most recent sub-fields of archaeology. It already published many books on theme, which enables one to get interested to study its development. Those books published not just texts, which presented discourse changes through time. They also published lots of photographs, which have their own discourses. As being so, the objective of this research is to study those photographs, noting how gender relations between the professionals involved with underwater archaeology are built. (AU)