![]() ![]() ![]() Pagans draw inspiration from fiction and also bring their practices to life in popular novels. ![]() Whatever terminology we choose to use for them is not the point it is that they existed and have existed in the past.Ĭontemporary Paganism’s emphasis on sacred story and narrative has led to an interdependent relationship with popular media. Matricultures still exist today in some parts of the world, albeit under threat as all Indigenous cultures are. All the heated rhetoric about "matriarchy" avoids the real issue, which is the existence of cultures that did not enforce a patriarchal double standard or make females legal minors ruled by fathers, brothers, and husbands. It looks at the furor over the work of Marija Gimbutas, Eller's charges of "essentialism" and "goddess monotheism," and theories about whether patriarchal social organization originated among foragers or agriculturalists. It also proposes that patriarchy is a historical development, questions functionalist interpretations of myths (or oral histories) of male takeovers. This article surveys literature on history, archaeology, and ethnography, from Lafitau, Morgan, Marx and Engels to Matilda Joslyn Gage and Barbara Mann, Bachofen to Jacquetta Hawkes. ![]()
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