Riane Eisler

Riane Eisler threshing floor house (* Vienna) is an American legal scholar, sociologist and writer. She fled as a child with her parents before National Socialism in Cuba. She later emigrated to the United States. She completed a degree in sociology and law at the University of California, where he taught and conducted research on the cultural history and evolution of humanity. She is the author of many books and articles, as well as President of the Center for Partnership Studies.

Riane Eisler is estimated by its supporters as a cultural historian and social thinker Evolutionstheoretikerin. They coined the terms " Dominator Culture " for the conflict between patriarchy and matriarchy and contrast " partnership model " for the social organization of ancient cultures. In order to support the theory that neither man nor woman in the past dominated the other, Eisler led to archaeological finds from Southeastern Europe, mainly from Crete, which originate from the research of Marija Gimbutas and Vere Gordon Childe. Your hypotheses are based largely on the apocryphal Gospels and the historical depiction of ancient poet Hesiod.

She was selected for the book " Macro History and Macrohistorians " as the only woman among 20 great thinkers.

Riane Eisler's work inspired the professor Min Jiayin from the Philosophical Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in her book The Chalice and the Blade in Chinese Culture (1995, chalice and sword in Chinese culture ).

It is council member of the World Future Council.

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