Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Views Read Edit View history.Įisler directs our attention to the least advertised stages of societal evolution, those of relative peace and prosperity, in which nothing strident rises up to catch the eye – and which we fail, rather consistently, to recognize as eras of manifest achievement. During the Neolithic times our world was a much different place. By the time that Sumer was in full swing, the partnership model had been overcome by the warrior culture of the nomadic steppes. Ths To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler I dived into the debate that has, and is going on online, and I haven’t yet read Gimbutas’s work.Īfter the explosion of the atomic bomb inshe realised that humanity now faced a crossroads.
Fortunately for those who would have us admire these ancient failed egalitarian societies in the present day, the Aryan conquest hypothesis isn’t true. Eieler writes of pre-written history: This author is not anti-religion, just anti-hate.
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It is quite convincing that that early European human cultures were indeed more egalitarian and less war-like than the version of early human history that I learned in school. When Morgan and Eisler wrote, however, much more work had been done and little tthe accumulated to support the hypothesis of an archaic social paradise. We have the technology to feed, clothe, and house people, but as long as we surrender to the dominator model, resources will continue to be concentrated in the hands of the few while the many suffer from need and lack.
“May be the most significant work publis.Įisler argues that there has been a conspiracy within science to hide these early peaceful societies, as evidence she cites an anecdote about an anthropologist she really likes getting his funding removed. Now with an updated epilogue celebrating the 30th anniversary of this groundbreaking and increasingly relevent book. The Chalice and the Blade (ISBN ) is a book by Riane Eisler that purports to explain the origin of “patriarchy” as the result of. With the most passionate eloquence, Riane Eisler proves that the “The Chalice and the Blade may be the most significant work published in all our lifetimes.”.
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