GenderGLOBAL is a historical archaeology project that investigates the connection between material culture, gender systems, and maintenance activities in the emergence of early modern colonial globalization. To this end, it analyzes the specific case of Guam and the Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific, focusing on four main lines of research: 1) the management of housing spaces, 2) care practices, 3) textile manufacturing, and 4) child socialization. All these tasks are included in the so-called maintenance activities, a concept born with the intention of highlighting the structural character of a set of daily and routine tasks in charge of maintaining group welfare and the short, medium and long term reproduction of human communities.

 

This project shares the philosophy of those works that defend the need to adopt a long-term perspective to understand colonial processes in all their complexity, promotes the convergence of knowledge generated from different disciplines, and the combination of archaeological field work, archaeometric studies and archival research.