The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society based on the recovery of more humane values."--From Library journal (6/1/85). |
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... animals , water , and trees or themselves partly animal - evidently was central to our lost psychic heritage . Also central to that lost heritage is the apparent awe and wonder at the great miracle of our human condition : the miracle ...
... animals , water , and trees or themselves partly animal - evidently was central to our lost psychic heritage . Also central to that lost heritage is the apparent awe and wonder at the great miracle of our human condition : the miracle ...
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... animal and human world into confronted halves and conceived that the union of these two halves ruled the economy of living beings . " 13 Leroi - Gourhan's conclusion that Paleolithic art reflects the impor- tance our early forebears ...
... animal and human world into confronted halves and conceived that the union of these two halves ruled the economy of living beings . " 13 Leroi - Gourhan's conclusion that Paleolithic art reflects the impor- tance our early forebears ...
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... animals found solely in association with high - ranking males of the community . The symbolic ties now evidenced ... animal sacrifices , and their caches of weapons sur- rounding the dead chiefs.33 Writing before the excavations of ...
... animals found solely in association with high - ranking males of the community . The symbolic ties now evidenced ... animal sacrifices , and their caches of weapons sur- rounding the dead chiefs.33 Writing before the excavations of ...
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