An English Translation of Bachofen's Mutterrecht (Mother Right) (1861)
Johann Jakob Bachofen
Mutterrecht (Mother Right) by Johann Jakob Bachofen was the seminal document of the 19th century concerning the role of women in ancient societies. Bachofen documented that motherhood is the source of human society, religion, morality, and decency in societies including Lycia, Crete, Greece, Egypt, India, Central Asia, Northern Africa, and Spain. He concluded the work by connecting ancient mother right with Christianity. BachofenOCOs theory of cultural evolution incited a virtual OCymother-maniaOCO among ethnologists, social philosophers, and even writers, among them Lewis Henry Morgan, Friedrich Engels, Joseph Campbell, Robert Graves, Thomas Mann, and Rainer Maria Rilke."
عام:
2007
الناشر:
Edwin Mellen Press
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
353
ISBN 10:
0773411402
ISBN 13:
9780773411401
ملف:
PDF, 3.33 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2007