Rolandas gimbutas biography of mahatma
Marija Gimbutas Transnational Biography, Feminist Reception ....
Rolandas gimbutas biography of mahatma
Lithuanian scholar who inspired American feminists: new book about Marija Gimbutienė
The Lithuanian anthropologist and archaeologist who became world-famous with her thesis about pre-Bronze Age Europe as a matriarchal culture is the subject of a new biography.
Rasa Navickaitė, a researcher at the University of Vienna, says that the celebrated Lithuanian anthropologist Marija Gimbutienė (Gimbutas) had many faces – for some, she was a scholar of paganism, for others, a radical feminist, a researcher of matriarchy.
In her book Marija Gimbutienė.
Archaeology, the Great Goddess Hypothesis, Feminism, Navickaitė attempts to see how all the different faces of Marija Gimbutienė fit together.
Initially, she says, she intended to write a work on the beginnings of feminism in Lithuania, its spread in post-Soviet Lithuania, women’s movements.
But when she started to delve into these topics, she discovered Gimbutienė and realised that she could not talk about Lithuanian feminism without d