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The Living Goddesses
by: Marija Gimbutas

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The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original--and originally shocking--interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. Gimbutas flew in the face of contemporary archaeology when she reconstructed goddess-centered cultures that predated historic patriarchal cultures by many thousands of years.
This volume, which was close to completion at the time of her death, contains the distillation of her studies, combined with new discoveries, insights, and analysis. Editor Miriam Robbins Dexter has added introductory and concluding remarks, summaries, and annotations. The first part of the book is an accessible, beautifully illustrated summation of all Gimbutas's earlier work on "Old European" religion, together with her ideas on the roles of males and females in ancient matrilineal cultures. The second part of the book brings her knowledge to bear on what we know of the goddesses today--those who, in many places and in many forms, live on.



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Features: Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9780520229150
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0520229150
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 306
Publication Date: January 12, 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press

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politics over history 2 out of 5 stars
Gimbutas spins an emotionally involving story of a peaceful, goddess-worshipping society invaded by savage, all-male Indo-Europeans, but there are many problems with this scenario. For one, she takes it for granted that the Neolithic revolution in Europe was a completely indigenous development, as though scattered hunter-gatherer tribes simply decided one day to become farmers and immortalize their cultures in monumental architecture. Clearly, since the characteristics of the Neolithic appear much ... Read More


 







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