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The Living Goddesses
by Miriam Robbins Dexter ; Marija Alseikaite Gimbutas
ISBN: 0520213939
ISBN-13: 9780520213937
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Published date: 1999
Size: 7.75 x 10.5 inches
Weight: 1.85 pounds
Pages: 286
Publisher's Notes
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.
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The Living Goddesses
Gimbutas, Marija Alseikaite; Dexter, Miriam Robbins
University of California Press. Hardcover. 0520213939 Beginning of book has some underlining in pencil. VG hardcover with dustjacket. 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. . Very Good. ( more information) Offered by Bampabooks (United States)
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