The Living Goddesses, 1st Edition
$51.99
- Paperback
306 pages
- Release Date
12 January 2001
Summary
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520229150 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0520229150 |
| Author: | Marija Gimbutas, Miriam R. Dexter |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 306 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 12 January 2001 |
| Weight: | 612g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 175mm x 254mm |
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Critics Review
“Wide-ranging and fascinating, “The Living Goddesses “should intrigue the curious and delight most feminist scholars.”–“Library Journal”
Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Curator of Old World Archaeology at what is now the Fowler Museum of Cultural History. She is the author of Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 7000-3500 b. c. (California, 1982) and coauthor, with Joseph Campbell, of The Language of the Goddess (1995). Miriam Robbins Dexter, who holds a Ph.D. in Indo-European studies from UCLA, is a lecturer in the Honors Collegia and in the Program in Women’s Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book (1990).
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