(2010) Voutsaki, S., Agency and personhood at the onset of the Mycenaean period. Archaeological Dialogues 17:1, 65-92. Christoph Ulf, Sofia Voutsaki

https://www.academia.edu/328749/_2010_Voutsaki_S_Agency_and_personhood_at_the_onset_of_the_Mycenaean_period_Archaeological_Dialogues_17_1_65_92?email_work_card=title&li=0 "This paper offers a critical evaluation of the debate on agency and personhood in archaeology. Despite some very interesting and sharp discussions, the debate has suffered from the projection of anachronistic definitions of the person and an over reliance on specific ethnographic readings. In addition, little attempt is made to bridge the abstract theoretical discussions with close analyses of empirical data. I would like to suggest that this should be our priority: to integrate theoretical discussions with careful contextual analysis of different types of evidence. In the second part of the paper, an attempt will be made to apply these ideas, and to examine notions of personhood and agency held by the inhabitants of the southern Greek mainland between ca. 1800 and 1600 BC. The analysis will be based on the mortuary practices and imagery of the period. Keywords Personhood; agency; relationality; Mycenaean; burial practices; imagery"