Gentlemen and Amazons : the Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900.

Gentlemen and Amazons : the Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900.

Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate th...

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Main Author: Eller, Cynthia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Amazone
Women, Prehistoric.
Religion, Prehistoric.
Matriarchy.
Matrilineal kinship.
Patriarchy.
Feminist theory.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Feminist theory
Matriarchy
Matrilineal kinship
Patriarchy
Religion, Prehistoric
Women, Prehistoric
Matriarchat
Mythos
Urgesellschaft
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Prehistoric Anthropology.
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