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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011.
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- Cover; Gentlemen and Amazons; Title; Copyright; For Teresa M. Shaw, my favorite historian; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 The Travels and Travails of Matriarchal Myth; THE "MYTH" IN MATRIARCHAL MYTH; 2 Amazons Everywhere: Matriarchal Myth before Bachofen; THE ENDURING APPEAL OF THE AMAZON; EARLY ETHNOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING AN EVOLUTIONARY TIME LINE; MATRIARCHY AND THE SOCIALIST IMAGINATION; INFLUENCES ON BACHOFEN; 3 On the Launching Pad: J.J. Bachofen and 'Das Mutterrecht'; JOHANN JAKOB BACHOFEN, 1815-1878; THE CHRONOLOGY OF HUMAN HISTORY IN BACHOFEN'S DAS MUTTERRECHT.
- BACHOFEN AND THE INTERPRETATION OF MYTHPROGRESS AND NOSTALGIA: BACHOFEN ON WOMEN, RELIGION, HISTORY, AND GOVERNMENT; BACHOFEN'S LEGACY; 4 The Matriarchal Explosion: Anthropology Finds Mother Right (and Itself); HENRY SUMNER MAINE'S PATRIARCHAL THEORY; JOHN FERGUSON McLENNAN: THEORIST OF MARRIAGE AND CONNOISSEUR OF THE BIZARRE; MOVING BEYOND McLENNAN: SIR JOHN LUBBOCK'S MATRIARCHAL MYTH; SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST: HERBERT SPENCER CHAMPIONS PATRIARCHY; REPORTING FROM THE FIELD:LEWIS HENRY MORGAN; WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH AND THE ARABIAN CASE; E.B. TYLOR AND THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SEAL OF APPROVAL.
- 5 Making Matriarchal Myth Work:Communists and Feminists Discover the Mother AgeFRIEDRICH ENGELS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY, PRIVATE PROPERTY, AND THE STATE; THE FIRST CHAPTER OF AUGUST BEBEL'S WOMAN AND SOCIALISM; FEMINISTS ON THE FIRST WAVE; 6 Mother Right on the Continent; ETHNOLOGY IN GERMANY; THE GERMAN SYNTHESIS: JULIUS LIPPERT'S VERSION OF MATRIARCHAL MYTH; SEX, MARRIAGE, AND DARWIN; PROPERTY AND LAW, WOMEN AND MEN; MOTHER R IGHT AND THE ETERNAL FEMININE; THE ARYAN MOTHER; LATE ENTRANTS TO THE MATRIARCHAL DEBATE; 7 Struggling to Stay Alive: Anthropology and Matriarchal Myth.
- THE SOCIALIST DEFECTION FROM MATRIARCHAL MYTHTHE MARGINALIZATION OF MATRIARCHAL MYTH IN ANTHROPOLOGY; FIELDWORK AS THE NEW ANTHROPOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE; THE IMPACT OF NEW ETHNOGRAPHY ON MATRIARCHAL MYTH; 8 Matriarchal Myth in the Late Nineteenth Century: Why Then? Why Not Before?; PRECONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATRIARCHAL MYTH; THE PATRIARCHAL FAMILY IN TROUBLE; NOTES; Bibliography; Index.