The Woman Who Married the Bear: The Spirituality of the Ancient Foremothers

ISBN-13: 9780197655429 / Twarda / 2023 / 296 str.

Professor of Womens St Kaarina (Professor of Womens Studies

Recenzje

An extraordinary collaboration, this book excavates the trace hauntings of an almost lost cosmology, divinity, and rituals surrounding the figure of the Woman Who Married the Bear. The wide-ranging sourcesDLancient documents, cellular memories, and contemporary theoriesDLchallenge the hegemony of the Western patriarchal social imaginaries and recuperate the evidence of rich matri-centred cultures and their gift economies. A classic, welcome, highly recommended contribution to contemporary interdisciplinary scholarship.

O autorze

Barbara Alice Mann is Professor of Humanities at the Jesup Scott Honors College of the University of Toledo, Ohio. She has published around 500 articles and chapters and fifteen books, including Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America and Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas. Kaarina Kailo previously served as Professor of Women's Studies at Oulu University, Finland; as Senior Scholar at the Finnish Academy; and in various positions at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Canada. She has published several books, anthologies, and hundreds of articles on the gift economy, ecofeminism/mythology, bear lore, women's folklore, and sauna healing. She is also the editor of Wo/men and Bears. The Gifts of Nature, Culture and Gender Revisited (2008).