The Gender Construction of the Scythian People Under the Influence of the Transcontinental Trading Networks Approached from Interdisciplinary Methodology

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10.2991/assehr.k.210519.049How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Scythians community, Amazon, Gender construction, Matriarchy, Nomadic pastoralists

Abstract

The silk road is a grandiose conceptual idea, and the silk road has consisted of numerous civilizations with different production modes. The interactive commercial relationship between nomadic pastoralists and the agrarian society had strengthened and conjoined the Eurasian transcontinental trading networks’ conceptual construction. Besides, the Scythians, the first nomadic group mentioned by the western authorship, had attracted many western scholars devoting their effort to the research of the Scythian group during the zealous time of Western-centric orientalism, and Caucasian androcentrism was still predominating the public mainstream in the western intelligentsia. The Scythian community apparatus and the idea of “Amazon” were mainly discussed under the Orientalized imaginaries about the alienated foreign outland, the existence of “Amazons,” and matriarchy structure. But the application of the modern anthropological approach had provided a new point of view for reexamining the gender construction in the Scythians community, which was conducted with the archaeological methodology of interpreting material remains. Aligning with the fruition of modern archaeology and the historiography of impressive value, contemporary scholars could consolidate the fragmented historical evidence into the integral parallel. This systematic approach could help us collate the social factors played in the social construction of Scythian Femininity. The unique production mode and social engagement could become a more “scientific” criterion for approaching the females in the Scythian community, which could be interrogated from a progressive and constructionist perspective.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ruijie Yao
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - The Gender Construction of the Scythian People Under the Influence of the Transcontinental Trading Networks Approached from Interdisciplinary Methodology
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 251
EP  - 255
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.049
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