The Past is a Foreigners' Country: Goddess Feminists, Archaeologists, and the Appropriation of Prehistory

Feminist archaeologists and others have criticised the Goddess movement, and Marija Gimbutas in particular, for producing 'Golden Age' theories about the past, claiming that there is no convincing archaeological evidence that Old Europe was universally peopled by matrifocal, peaceful, egal...

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Main Author: Rountree, Kathryn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Carfax Publ. [2001]
In: Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2001, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-27
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