It was then, according to archaeologist Marija Gimbutas and other researchers, that dominator culture took over, spreading west and south from Eastern Europe, eventually conquering most of the planet.īesides teaching a fuller version of history, The Chalice and the Blade also introduced Eisler’s Cultural Transformation theory, which proposed that the two underlying models of society are not capitalist and communist, religious and secular, or right and left, but “partnership” and “dominator.” Dominator societies-popularly called authoritarian and patriarchies or matriarchies-are characterized by sexism, which leads to other inequalities, chronic war, nature-destroying habits, the devaluing of caring work, and other dysfunctions. Eisler shared evidence from archaeology, mythology, art, religion, and sculpture that strongly suggested that humans lived in relative peace and harmony, with gender-and-class equality, worshiping nature as a female deity, until only around 6,500 years ago. A holistic study of human history, it took into account important aspects that are normally, in our global dominator society, ignored: women and prehistory. I read it in 2014 and found it revelatory and amazing. Her most influential book, The Chalice and the Blade, published in 1987, has sold over half a million copies and been translated into 27 languages. She is the president of the Center For Partnership Systems, and the editor in chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies.
Eisler married, had two daughters, earned a law degree from UCLA, divorced, practiced family law, and then wrote or co-wrote thirteen books. They went to Havana, Cuba, where they lived in an industrial slum for seven years before moving to the US and settling in Los Angeles. In 1939, she and her parents fled the Nazi invasion of their country. Riane Eisler was born in 1931 in Vienna, Austria. For Document, the two authors meet to discuss the role of law in shaping society, the allure of prehistory, and how to adopt new modes of thinking
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