BARIŞ TOPLUMLARI OLARAK ANAERKİLLER: ANAERKİLLİĞİ YENİDEN DÜŞÜNMEK
MATRIARCHIES AS PEACE SOCIETIES: RE-THINKING MATRIARCHY

Summary/Abstract: The findings of modern matriarchal studies contradict the ideology of universal patriarchy and patriarchy. Modern matriarchal studies, on the other hand, are only concerned with researching non-patriarchal societies and presenting the data obtained, these are; those that existed in the past and are still with us to some extent. These patterns are not the idea that women somehow rule over men, namely the reversal of patriarchy; without exception, they are gender-equal societies, and in most cases, they are purely egalitarian societies. Hierarchies, classes and gender domination are unknown to them. While they are societies without domination, mechanisms of domination or control are only fixed by specific guidelines and codes. At the economic level, matriarchies are mostly agricultural societies, and the economic level manifests itself in kinship and marital relations, as the circulation of goods as gifts. People in such societies enjoy reciprocity: every advantage or disadvantage in terms of acquisition is governed by social rules. At the social level, matriarchal societies are based on motherhood and are based on clan. Motherhood is the most important function in every society, because motherhood creates new generations who are the future of society. In matriarchy, divinity is immanent, because the whole world is considered divine, feminine divine. This situation also explains the concept known/adopted as the Great Goddess who created everything, the universe and everything living, and the Great Mother in the world. Every man and woman, every plant and animal, the smallest pebble and the biggest star, in short, everything has been given divinity. In such a culture, everything is spiritual.

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