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The Living Goddesses

Door Marija Gimbutas e.a.

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#348874-VD33
Titel
The Living Goddesses
Auteur
Gimbutas, Marija & Miriam Robbins Dexter (edited and supplemented by)
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Ujiversity Pf California Press
Jaar van uitgave
1999
ISBN10
0520213939
ISBN13
9780520213937
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, b/w illustrations, small 4to.
Samenvatting
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 summat
... (Lees verder)ion 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.
Pagina's
286
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 30,00

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