Rewriting the Past to Save the Future: A Review of "The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future"
| dc.contributor.author | Grindell, Beth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-29T20:10:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-09-29T20:10:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1993 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Arizona Anthropologist 10:119-130. © 1993 Association of Student Anthropologists Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1062-1601 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/112041 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The revival of a prehistoric religion of the "mother-goddess" has been championed as the solution to many modem ills. The archaeological evidence for the existence of such a goddess is examined and found wanting. It is suggested that this revival is predicated on ideas about the nature of women that differ little from 1 9th-century ideals that saw women as purer and nobler than men. The role of archaeological interpretations of data in promulgating such ideas is discussed. | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology | en_US |
| dc.title | Rewriting the Past to Save the Future: A Review of "The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future" | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.journal | Arizona Anthropologist | en_US |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-21T19:59:51Z | |
| html.description.abstract | The revival of a prehistoric religion of the "mother-goddess" has been championed as the solution to many modem ills. The archaeological evidence for the existence of such a goddess is examined and found wanting. It is suggested that this revival is predicated on ideas about the nature of women that differ little from 1 9th-century ideals that saw women as purer and nobler than men. The role of archaeological interpretations of data in promulgating such ideas is discussed. |
