Marija Gimbutas and the Future of a Legacy

References

• The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe (1974); reprinted in 1982 as The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, the intended tide for the 1974 publication, but retitled by the publisher Thames & Hudson; The Language of the Goddess (1989); and The Civilization of the Goddess (1991).
   Google Scholar
• 1999 . Utne Reader , May-June : 45
   Google Scholar
• Spretnak , Charlene . 1996 . "Beyond the Backlash: An Appreciation of the Work of Marija Gimbutas," . Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , 12 : 96
   Google Scholar
• Goddesses , Living . "Editor's Introduction," ” . xvi
   Google Scholar
• 1987 . "The Study of Myth," chap. 1 ” . In Comparative Mythology , 7 – 20 . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press . See also the work of Jaan Puhvel, a colleague of Gimbutas at OCLA, esp.
   Google Scholar
• Meskell , Lynn . 1995 . "Goddesses, Gimbutas and 'New Age' Archaeology," . Antiquity , 69 : 74 – 86 . For a fair presentation of the issues See
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Roller , Lynn . 1999 . In Search of God the Mother , Berkeley : University of California Press . See Gimbutas's interpretation of reconstructed depictions of bucranium and female figures on temple walls at the Neolithic site of Çatal Hüyük in central Anatolia as depictions of "uterus and fallopian tubes" (Living Goddesses, 35)
   Google Scholar
• Gimbutas , M. 1982 . "Women and Culture in Goddess-Oriented Old Europe," ” . In The Politics of Women's Spirituality , Edited by: Spretnak , Charlene . 28 NY : Anchor Books, Doubleday . argues effectively against the claims of the "inevitability and ubiquity of a mother goddess in Mediterranean prehistory" (27). See esp. her treatment of animal representations and female figurines at the Çatal Hüyük site, 27-39. For Gimbutas's interpretation of the phallus as a symbol which "intimately bind|s| the male force to the goddess of regeneration" see ibid., 37-8; cf. The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 237, where she states that "Phallicism … in the context of religious ritual … was a form of catharsis, not of symbolic procreation. There is no evidence that in Neolithic times mankind understood biological conception"; and, where the phallus is interpreted as a symbol of "becoming" representative of the transcendent and renewing aspect of the Goddess
   Google Scholar
• 1988 . Gimbutas's attack of Colin Renfrew's book Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins (c.1987) . Current Anthropology , 29 ( 3 ) : 453 – 6 . Renfrew argues for a proto-Indo-European Neolithic agricultural civilization versus a pre-Indo-European Neolithic culture and people. Renfrew worked with Gimbutas at one of her earliest Bronze Age excavation sites, Sitagroi in Greek Macedonia, in the late 1960s
   Google Scholar
• See the National Film Board of Canada's production of The Goddess Remembered (1989), Part One of a three-part series entitled "Women and Spirituality" in which many of the prominent figures in this movement (Charlene Spretnak, Susan Griffin, Carol Christ, Jean Bolen, and others) discuss their Utopian vision of Neolithic Goddess religion.
   Google Scholar
• Marier , Joan . 1996 . "The Life and Work of Marija Gimbutas," . Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , 12 : 37 – 51 . For bibliographic and biographic summaries, See, ; and the "Campbell and Gimbutas Library" website (posted by the Pacificia Graduate Institute Archive Libraries) at URL: http://pacifica.edu/cglibrary
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seven years before her death by cancer in 1994, a Festschrift, edited by Edgar Polomé and Susan Skomal was published, entitled Proto-Indo-European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem: Studies in Honor of Marija Gimbutas. In 1996, Miriam Dexter and Edgar Polomé edited a memorial monograph, Varia on the Indo-Europeanization of Northern Europe: A Memorial for Marija Gimbutas. In 1997, Joan Marier, who will soon be publishing Gimbutas's biography, edited yet a third Festschrift: From the Realm of the Ancestors: An Anthology in Honor of Marija Gimbutas.
   Google Scholar