Societies of Peace

Societies of Peace: Matriarchies Past Present and Future, edited by Heide Goettner-Abendroth, celebrates women's largely ignored and/or invisible contribution to culture by exploring matriarchal societies that have existed in the past and that continue to exist today in certain parts of the world. Matriarchal societies, primarily shaped by women, have a non violent social order in which all living creatures are respected without the exploitation of humans, animals or nature. They are well-balanced and peaceful societies in which domination is unknown and all beings are treated equally. This book presents these largely misunderstood societies, both past and present, to the wider public, as alternative social and cultural models that promote trust, mutuality, and abundance for all.

Acknowledgements Introduction Heide Goettner-Abendroth Part I. Theory and Politics of Matriarchal Societies The Deep Structure of Matriarchal Society: Findings and Political Relevance of Modern Matriarchal Studies Heide Goettner-Abendroth (Germany) The Utopia of a Motherless World – Patriarchy as “War-System” Claudia von Werlhof (Austria) Matriarchy and the Gift Economy Genevieve Vaughan (USA/Italy) Part II. Present Matriarchal Societies – America and Oceania North and Central America “They Are the Soul of the Councils”: The Iroquoian Model of Woman-Power Barbara Alice Mann (Bear Clan of the Ohio Seneca, Iroquois, USA) Matriarchal Principles for Economies and Societies of Today: What We Can Learn from Juchitán Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen (Germany) Matriarchal Values with the Sierra Juarez Zapotecs of Oaxaca Dona Enriqueta Contreras (Oaxaca, Mexico) South America and Oceania “Goldmother Bore Human Children into the World”: The Culture of the Kuna Antje Olowaili (Germany) Women and Power: The Shipibo of the Upper Amazon Carolyn Heath (Great Britain) “Aia Na Ha’ina i Loko o Kakou”: The Answers Lie Within Us Mililani B. Trask (Hawaii) Restoring Liberative Elements of Samoan Cultural Gender Arrangements Taimalie Kiwi Tamasese (Samoa/New Zealand) Part III. Present Matriarchal Societies – Africa West and South Africa Female Leadership among the Asante Wilhelmina J. Donkoh (Ghana, West Africa) Akan Healing Heritage Gad Asyako Osafo (Ghana, West Africa) The Practice Medicine in Matriarchal Societies Cécile Keller (Switzerland) Beyond Patriarchy and Violence: The Khoisan and Partnership Bernedette Muthien (South Africa) North Africa “We Are the Shelter and the Protection”: The Representation of Gender Among the Tuaregs Hélène Claudot-Hawad (France) A Tuareg Woman in Modern Times Fatimata Oualet Halatine (Central Sahara) The Central Position of Women Among the Berber People of Northern Africa: The Four Seasons Life Cycle of a Kabyle Woman Makilam (Algeria/France/Germany) Part IV. Present Matriarchal Societies – Asia India and Sumatra Khasi Matrilineal Society: Challenges in the Twenty-first Century Patricia Mukhim (India) Nayars of Kerala and Matriliny Revisited Savithri Shanker de Tourreil (Kerala, India/Canada) Matriarchal Values and World Peace: The Case of the Minangkabau Peggy Reeves Sanday (USA) The Role of Minangkabau Women Usria Dhavida (Sumatra) China The Kinship System of the Mosuo in China Yan Ruxian (China) Matriarchal Marriage Patterns of the Mosuo People of China Lamu Gatusa (China) Mosuo Family Structures Hengde Danshilacuo / He Mei (China) Frameworks for Societies in Balance: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Gender Equality Shanshan Du (China/usa) Part V. Past – Theory of History The Battle over Human Possibilities: Women, Men and Cultural Transformation Riane Eisler (USA) The Iconography and Social Structure of Old Europe: The Archaeo-mythological Research of Marija Gimbutas Joan Marler (USA) Nefertiti – “A Beautiful Woman Has Come”: Matriarchal Power in the Spiral of History Annette Kuhn (Germany) Part VI. Past Matriarchal Societies Europe Footsteps of the Goddess in Britain and Ireland Michael Dames (Great Britain) Landscapes of the Ancestress: Principles of Matriarchal Natural Philosophy and Landscape Mythology Kurt Derungs (Switzerland) The “Helka Festival”: Traces of a Finno-Ugric Matriarchy and Worldview? Kaarina Kailo (Finland) Dark Mother, Dark Others, and a New World: The Case of Sardinia Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum (Italy/USA) North Africa, Israel, Japan How the Amazons Got Their Name Vicki Noble (USA) In Search of the Lybian Amazons: Preliminary Research in Tunisia Marguerite Rigoglioso (USA) Matriarchal Structures in the Hebrew Bible Christa Mulack (Germany) The Matristic Roots of Japan and the Emergence of the Japanese Sun Goddess, Amaterasu-o-mi-kami Susan Gail Carter (USA) Part VII. Origin of Patriarchy Saharasia: The Origins of Patriarchal Authoritarian Culture in Ancient Desertification James DeMeo (USA) Notes on the Rise and Expansion of Patriarchy Heide Goettner-Abendroth (Germany) Part VIII. Matriarchal Politics Declaration on Matriarchal Politics

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