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The myths of matriarchy and patriarchy - the key for understanding the sworn virgins phenomenon? (CROSBI ID 564287)

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Vince-Pallua, Jelka The myths of matriarchy and patriarchy - the key for understanding the sworn virgins phenomenon? // 2nd International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds "The Mediterranean of the Myths, the Myths of the Mediterranean" : abstracts. Istanbul: Istanbul Sehir University, 2010. str. 49-49

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Vince-Pallua, Jelka

engleski

The myths of matriarchy and patriarchy - the key for understanding the sworn virgins phenomenon?

Myth as the speech of primordial human consciousness throughout history in which it was changed and transfigured is the soil where, it can be said, the culture came from and became an object of the research of cultural anthropology/ethnology, the science that this contribution is based on. There are not many regions in the world where human activity can be traced for so long as in the Mediterranean. The Adriatic region, as a miniature Mediterranen, raises almost all the problems that are implied while researching the whole of the Mediterranean. Nevertheless, there is a specific, endemic phenomenon not only in Europe, but in the world, not present elsewhere in the Mediterranean - on the Eastern part of the Adriatic, i.e. its hinterland, on the Dinaric mountainous regions of the Western part of the Balkan peninsula (the mountains that, in a Braudelian sense, make a skeleton of Mediterranean) – the so called virgins/tobelijas. It is a customary-law institution in which, when there are no men to inherit, a woman is bound by a vow not to marry, „changes her sex“ and takes over the role of men – dresses like men, is cropped like men, has a male form of her name, behaves like men, carries weappons, goes to war if necessary, takes part in men's assemblies and has almost all the public rights of men in a strict patriarchal society. Is it possible, as some scholars had tried, to interpret the uniqueness, the endemic feature of the cross-dressed virgins, by putting this phenomenon into the evolutionist's myth theory and the notion of „survival“ from a matriarchal past when women, especially in some parts of the Mediterranean and before the arrival of Indo- European patriarchy, had a much more privileged position? Inseparable are the ways of discovery of comparative sciences of mythology and ethnology when comparative mythology becomes a scientific discipline at the time of European imperialism, and the myth itself an instrument of European self-determination. Two opposite wrong ways in the attempt to interpret this phenomenon within the binary category of matriarchy and patriarchy are being discussed. The author presents her new interpretation of this phenomenon that is not being trapped either by the „myth of matriarchy“ or the „myth of patriarchy“, the latter being the stereotyped vision, the myth of the uniform, universal patriarchy with not enough insight into the attributes of the specific type, of the tribal patriarchalism in this remote region. Therefore, by showing the contestation of identities, regional, ethnic, and above all gender (since there are no regional, ethnic or gender frontiers for this phenomenon, as it will be shown), the author will try to answer the above question and explain the origin of the phenomenon that can be found still today. The analysis of the two myths – the myth of matriarchy and the myth of (stereotypical) patriarchy - will show that myth doesn't necessarily reflect the „real history“ and that, in our case, it can't be taken as the source for its scientific, historical interpretation.

Mediterranean; myth; matriarchy; patriarchy; sworn virgins

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Podaci o prilogu

49-49.

2010.

objavljeno

Podaci o matičnoj publikaciji

2nd International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds "The Mediterranean of the Myths, the Myths of the Mediterranean" : abstracts

Istanbul: Istanbul Sehir University

Podaci o skupu

International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds "The Mediterranean of the Myths, the Myths of the Mediterranean" (2 ; 2010)

predavanje

03.06.2010-06.06.2010

Istanbul, Turska

Povezanost rada

Etnologija i antropologija