Marija Gimbutas

This book is a biography and reception history of the Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994). It presents the first transnational account of Gimbutas' life based on historical research, and an original examination of the impact of her ideas in various feminist contexts, both academic and popular.

Autorentext

Rasa Navickait is a Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include gender and sexuality studies, history of science, Eastern European politics and societies.

Zusammenfassung
This book is a biography and reception history of the LithuanianAmerican archaeologist Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994). It presents the first transnational account of Gimbutas' life based on historical research, and an original examination of the impact of her ideas in various feminist contexts, both academic and popular.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction: Writing Marija Gimbutas; PART I: The Making of Marija Gimbutas in National and Transnational Contexts: A Critical Biography; Chapter 2. From Interwar Vilnius to Postwar Germany; Chapter 3. Life and Career in the U.S.; PART II: Transnational Feminist Reception of Marija Gimbutas: Archaeology, Spirituality, and Nationalism; Chapter 4. New Archaeology, Old Europe, and the Feminist Science Debates: Marija Gimbutas' "Pre-Her-Story" in Academia; Chapter 5. Searching for Old Europe: Marija Gimbutas and the Problem of Cultural Appropriation in Feminist Spirituality; Chapter 6. The Archaeologist of Nation and Gender: Gimbutas and Post-Socialist Lithuanian Feminism; Chapter 7. Conclusion.