Category: Books & Publications

ASWM’s own books and publications, as well as books and publications of interest to the membership

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2021 Symposium: The Institute of Archaeomythology

 

IAM

ASWM’s 2021 Symposium, “Wisdom Across the Ages: Celebrating the Centennial of Archaeomythologist Marija Gimbutas,” is presented in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeomythology (IAM).  IAM is an international organization of scholars dedicated to fostering an interdisciplinary approach to cultural research with particular emphasis on the beliefs, rituals, social structure, and symbolism of past and present societies.

Marija Gimbutas

Inspired by the work of visionary scholar Marija Gimbutas, who encouraged students and colleagues from a variety of fields to examine problems in European prehistory with an inclusive, interdisciplinary point of view.

Learn more about IAM, and their free online journal and other publications.

Registration for symposium recordings is now available to the public! Register here.  

To give you plenty of time to view the program at leisure, all sessions will remain available, to those who register, until the end of July 2022.

The Institute for Archaeomythology

IAM

ASWM’s 2021 Symposium, “Wisdom Across the Ages: Celebrating the Centennial of Archaeomythologist Marija Gimbutas,” is presented in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeomythology (IAM). Inspired by the scholarship of Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, IAM is an international organization of scholars dedicated to fostering an interdisciplinary approach to cultural research with particular emphasis on the beliefs, rituals, social structure, and symbolism of past and present societies. The Institute encourages dialogue among specialists from diverse fields by sponsoring international symposia, by publishing collected papers and monographs, and by promoting creative collaboration within an atmosphere of mutual support.

Marija Gimbutas

Background

A visionary scholar, Marija Gimbutas actively encouraged students and colleagues from a variety of fields to examine problems in European prehistory with a more inclusive and interdisciplinary point of view. A major focus of her research centered on the Neolithic cultures of Old Europe and the Indo-European Bronze Age societies that replaced them. She stressed the importance of investigating the enormous changes in beliefs, rituals and social structure that took place as a result of the “collusion of cultures” that took place between c. 4500-2500 BC, during the Indo-Europeanization of Europe, in order to more fully understand subsequent European cultural development. In Gimbutas’s view, this was “one of the most complex and least understood [periods] in prehistory.”

Journal of Archaeomythology

The JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOMYTHOLOGY has been published on a semi-yearly basis since 2005. The Journal is available on an OPEN ACCESS basis. All issues of the Journal are freely available to members and non-members alike. To have full access to all Journal articles, please click here to register for a free account. IAM also publishes collected papers from international symposia and monographs on archaeomythological themes. Learn more at their website. IAM is a membership organization; learn more here.

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Announcing Volume 3 of Proceedings

 

The Land Remembers Us:

Women, Myth, and Nature

 

Volume 3 of Proceedings of the Association for the Study of

Women and Mythology

Edited by Mary Jo Neitz and Sid Reger

We launched Volume 3 of our conference proceedings on Saturday, March 14, during our biennial ASWM Conference. In this collection, the works of 18 scholars explore many connections of myth, land, and women’s lives, including wildness, prehistoric art and archaeology, and contemporary goddess traditions.

“This luminous volume is filled with myth and story tied to the land and Her deepest embedded wisdom and mysteries”. —Dr. Cristina Eisenberg, The Wolf’s Tooth and The Carnivore Way 

“From the earliest awakenings of the Women’s Spirituality movement, our yearning to know about women’s sacred engagements with nature through the ages was inherent. This collection of insightful articles brings so much to fruition — with concepts such as Gaian epistemology, language of animacy, women’s weaving as sacred transformations with nature, and much more. It enlarges the scholarship of cultural history by way of laying out a grand banquet.”  —Charlene Spretnak,  Lost Goddesses of Early Greece
                                                            

“The Land Remembers Us is a valuable contribution to the literature of place, the earth and the sacred.” —Michael McDermott M.D., co-founder with Patricia Monaghan and director of the Black Earth Institute

“This collection of essays contains some poignant explanations of the multifold ways our spirits can connect to the intelligences of the land, the plants, the animals, the cells, and to the spiritual energies on our wonderfully diverse planet.” —Miriam Robbins Dexter, Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book 

The Land Remembers Us may be purchased from Goddess Ink and other online booksellers.

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Matriarchal Studies – Matriarchatsforschung New Bilingual Website

The Academy HAGIA is pleased to announce its newly created, bilingual website, Matriarchal Studies—Matriarchatsforschung (AHMSM), a unique bibliography of Modern Matriarchal Studies.

The Academy HAGIA has been planning the launch of AHMSM for quite some time, and now it is available on internet, in German at: www.matriarchatsforschung.comand in English at: www.matriarchalstudies.com

The Bibliography exhaustively lists all known studies of and commentaries on the subject of matriarchies, from ancient times up to the modern day. Each title mentioned includes a short caption, so that the origin and development of the field of matriarchy can be traced through to the establishment of modern matriarchal studies.

In the first part of AHMSM offers anthropological publications describing matriarchal societies and societies with matriarchal elements worldwide, in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia. The second part of the bibliography is dedicated to the history of matriarchal cultures through archaeological publications and the history of cultures, which have contributed to the knowledge about matriarchal societies in history in West Asia and Europe.

 The Oxford University Press (U.S.) first published this comprehensive, English-language bibliography in 2015, with an update published in 2019, the same year that it was translated into German, making this excellent intellectual tool for research on matriarchal societies now accessible in both English and German.

Licensed by Oxford University Press, AHMSM is available, free of charge, as a gift to scholars and people interested in Modern Matriarchal Studies.

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ASWM Proceedings Receive Best Books Awards

Myths Shattered and Restored and Vibrant Visions: Women, Myth and the Arts included in

100 of the Best Books in Women’s Spirituality!

The Board of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology is thrilled to announce that two of ASWM’s publications, Myths Shattered and Restored, and Vibrant Visions: Women, Myth, and the Arts (Proceedings of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, volumes 1 & 2) were honored by being included in the recent 100 of the Best Books in Women’s Spirituality awarded by the Women’s Spirituality Department of the California Institute of Integral Studies.

The 100 of the Best Books in Women’s Spirituality were announced at the Women’s Spirituality Department’s conference Women Rising: New Visions for a Post-Patriarchal World which took place at the CIIS campus in San Francisco October 12-14, 2018.  The conference was held in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Women’s Spirituality Department at CIIS.

As the Department noted on their web site:

These acclaimed authors include a broad diversity of scholars and artists who are contributing to the emerging field of Women’s Spirituality in academia. . . . Our faculty and students are especially grateful to the many Women’s Spirituality authors and artists who inspire and nourish the work we do in higher education to support women’s spiritual freedoms, cultural agency, and eco-social justice around the world.

If you wish to purchase one or both of the ASWM volumes, you can do so through Amazon, or the Goddess Ink website.

Many of ASWM’s members also have their individual books honored by inclusion in this list.  Our hearty congratulations go out to them all!

You can view the complete list of Best Books at:  http://womenrisingconference.org/index.php/wse-book-awards/