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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theory and Politics of Matriarchal Societies | |
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| The Deep Structure of Matriarchal Society: Findings and Political Relevance of Modern Matriarchal Studies | |
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| The Utopia of a Motherless World - Patriarchy as "War-System" | |
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| Matriarchy and the Gift Economy | |
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| Present Matriarchal Societies - America and Oceania | |
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| North and Central America | |
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| "They Are the Soul of the Councils": The Iroquoian Model of Woman-Power | |
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| Matriarchal Principles for Economies and Societies of Today: What We Can Learn from Juchit�n | |
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| Matriarchal Values with the Sierra Juarez Zapotecs of Oaxaca | |
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| South America and Oceania | |
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| "Goldmother Bore Human Children into the World": The Culture of the Kuna | |
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| Women and Power: The Shipibo of the Upper Amazon | |
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| "Aia Na Ha'ina i Loko o Kakou": The Answers Lie Within Us | |
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| Restoring Liberative Elements of Samoan Cultural Gender Arrangements | |
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| Present Matriarchal Societies-Africa | |
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| West and South Africa | |
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| Female Leadership among the Asante | |
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| Akan Healing Heritage | |
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| The Practice Medicine in Matriarchal Societies | |
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| Beyond Patriarchy and Violence: The Khoisan and Partnership | |
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| North Africa | |
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| "We Are the Shelter and the Protection": The Representation of Gender Among the Tuaregs | |
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| A Tuareg Woman in Modern Times | |
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| The Central Position of Women Among the Berber People of Northern Africa: The Four Seasons Life Cycle of a Kabyle Woman | |
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| Present Matriarchal Societies-Asia | |
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| India and Sumatra | |
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| Khasi Matrilineal Society: Challenges in the Twenty-first Century | |
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| Nayars of Kerala and Matriliny Revisited | |
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| Matriarchal Values and World Peace: The Case of the Minangkabau | |
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| The Role of Minangkabau Women | |
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| China | |
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| The Kinship System of the Mosuo People of China | |
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| Mosuo Family Structures | |
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| Frameworks for Societies in Balance: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Gender Equality | |
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| Past-Theory of History | |
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| The Battle over Human Possibilities: Women, Men and Cultural Transformation | |
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| The Iconography and Social Structure of Old Europe: The Archaeo-mythological Research of Marija Gimbutas | |
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| Nefertiti- "A Beautiful Women Has Come": Matriarchal Power in the Spiral of History | |
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| Past Matriarchal Societies | |
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| Europe | |
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| Footsteps of the Goddess in Britain and Ireland | |
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| Landscapes of the Ancestress: Principles of Matriarchal Natural Philosophy and Landscape Mythology | |
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| The "Helka Festival": Traces of a Finno-Ugric Matriarchy and Worldview? | |
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| Dark Mother, Dark Others, and a New World: The Case of Sardinia | |
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| North Africa, Israel, Japan | |
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| How the Amazons Got Their Name | |
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| In Search of the Lybian Amazons: Preliminary Research in Tunisia | |
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| Matriarchal Structures in the Hebrew Bible | |
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| The Matristic Roots of Japan and the Emergence of the Japanese Sun Goddess, Amaterasu-o-mi-kami | |
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| Origin of Patriarchy | |
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| Saharasia: The Origins of Patriarchal Authoritarian Culture in Ancient Desertification | |
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| Notes on the Rise and Expansion of Patriarchy | |
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| Matriarchal Politics | |
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| Declaration on Matriarchal Politics | |