Chapter 4 New Archaeology, Old Europe, and the Feminist Science Debates

The chapter traces Gimbutas’ engagement with gender as a research topic, proposing that her work on European prehistory should be seen as written from a feminist point of view. It explains her contributions to rewriting prehistory from a women-centered perspective, her reinterpretations of female sy...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1218172025-03-12T15:59:16Z Chapter 4 New Archaeology, Old Europe, and the Feminist Science Debates Navickaitė, Rasa Marija Gimbutas, gender studies, archaeology, prehistoric archaeology, feminism The chapter traces Gimbutas’ engagement with gender as a research topic, proposing that her work on European prehistory should be seen as written from a feminist point of view. It explains her contributions to rewriting prehistory from a women-centered perspective, her reinterpretations of female symbolism in early figurative art, and her implicit critique of the androcentric narratives of the development of Western civilization. It discusses also Gimbutas’ scholarly persona and the way she combined aspects of an Enlightenment ideal of disinterested perspective with a Romantic notion of scholarly discovery as divine inspiration, which she expressed through reference to the Lithuanian folk figure of a witch – the Ragana. The chapter analyzes the critiques of Gimbutas’ work and places them within the context of the changing paradigms of the discipline of archaeology. It shows how the introduction of post-structuralist feminist approaches to archaeology changed the way scholars perceive the question of gender in prehistory and, by extension, Gimbutas’ work. The chapter proposes to consider her work as a “pre-her-story” of archaeology. 2023-11-17T08:41:24Z 2023-11-17T08:41:24Z 2023-09-14T12:39:16Z 2023 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76332 9781032104898 9781032104904 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121817 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76332/1/9781003215592_10.4324_9781003215592-6.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76332/1/9781003215592_10.4324_9781003215592-6.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76332/1/9781003215592_10.4324_9781003215592-6.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003215592-6 10.4324/9781003215592-6 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Marija Gimbutas University of Washington 1286a4ee-cbd7-4645-97e6-bb22a666b4f4 9781032104898 9781032104904 Routledge 44 open access
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