Sublime

Existen todavía algunas comunidades centradas en las mujeres en Asia. Las tribus garo y khasi, de alrededor de un millón de personas, son sociedades matrilineales, principalmente en la India, que están orientadas a las mujeres, pero no dominadas por ellas. En una familia khasi, la hija menor hereda la propiedad ancestral; en la comunidad garo, las

As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.

Hawaiian women thus bore the responsibility of reproducing national knowledge

“We are the ones who first ploughed the earth when Modise (God) made it,” ran an old Setswana poem. “We were the ones who made the food. We are the ones who look after the men when they are little boys, when they are young men, and when they are old and about to die. We are always there. But we are just women, and nobody sees us.”

The female bloodline of modern domesticated horses shows extreme diversity. Traits inherited through the mitochondrial DNA, which passes unchanged from mother to daughter, show that this part of the bloodline is so diverse that at least seventy-seven ancestral mares, grouped into seventeen phylogenetic branches, are required to account for the gene

Ancient cultures were matriarchal—matri (mother) arche (beginning), beginning with the mother (see fig. 57). Mother-centered or matristic cultures were those societies that formed around the mother-child bond and rippled out from there.

At Wetwang Slack, careful digging and dating allowed the sequence of burials in the cemetery to be disentangled. Clusters formed around primary interments – typically, an older woman buried with beads would be the ‘founder figure’ – her grave forming a focus for subsequent burials of more women, with or without beads. Those gendered clusters also m