Roman provincial sexualities: Constructing the body, sexuality, and gender through erotic lamp art

IF 1.6 2区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Journal of Social Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.1177/14696053221109955
Sanja Vucetic
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This paper explores how replicated erotic art decorating terracotta lamps constructed sexual ideology in Roman provinces. Lamp imagery, through semantic combination of elements, generated sexual discourse in which certain bodies and actions visually articulated boundaries of ideal and non-ideal sexualities and associated practices. Mould-made replication helped sexual disc-reliefs communicate consistent ideas about sexuality, aiding cultural cohesion throughout the globalising empire. Lamp portability helped these ideas reach large audiences across vast geographies. Provincial communities, through selection of these objects, however, redefined Roman sexual discourse locally. The greatest difference is discernible between the Latin and Greek locales. In the Latin sites disc-reliefs generate meaning through idealised and dwarf symplegmata, whereas in the Greek East they do so through portrayals of idealised symplegma, mythological rapes, and bestiality. The paper demonstrates the plurality of provincial sexualities, the regional bases for their formation, and their implication in broader Roman colonial discourses.
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罗马省级性:通过色情灯艺术构建身体、性和性别
本文探讨了在罗马各省复制的装饰陶灯的情色艺术是如何建构性意识形态的。灯意象通过元素的语义组合,产生了性话语,在性话语中,某些身体和行为在视觉上阐明了理想性和非理想性以及相关实践的界限。模具制作的复制品有助于性椎间盘浮雕传达关于性的一致观点,有助于整个全球化帝国的文化凝聚力。灯的便携性帮助这些想法在广阔的地域范围内获得了大量受众。然而,通过选择这些对象,省级社区在当地重新定义了罗马的性话语。拉丁语和希腊语地区之间的差异最大。在拉丁地区,圆盘浮雕通过理想化和矮化的symlegmata产生意义,而在希腊东部,它们通过描绘理想化的symLegma、神话强奸和兽交来产生意义。本文论证了地域性的多元性,其形成的地域基础,以及它们在更广泛的罗马殖民话语中的含义。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Social Archaeology is a fully peer reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, cognitive studies and behavioural science. It is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.
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