Signs Out of Time: The Story of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas
by Donna Read
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Actor: Colin Renfrew, Marija Gimbutas, Olympia Dukakis, Ralph Metzner, Vikki NobelDirector: Donna Read
Brand: Koch International
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Alive Mind
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- This documentary examines the life and work of world-renowned archaeologist Dr. Marija Gimbutas. Drawing from her extensive knowledge of mythology and linguistics, Lithuanian-born Gimbutas uncovered the life-affirming and goddess-worshipping civilizations of pre-historic "Old Europe." Weaving together footage of Gimbutas herself, as well as interviews with her supporters and critics, SIGNS
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Movie Review: New reading of history.
Summary: 5 Stars
Just as minorities have been portrayed as violent for various political and economic agendas (i.e. - blacks and Native Americans portrayed as 'savages' to rationalize the injustices perpetrated by 'civilized' Anglos), there has been a similar defamation campaign against the human species as a whole. Elites quite consciously try to convince people of their barbarism to justify the military establishments and prison complexes they build and profit from Why We Fight America's Prisons: The Movement Toward Profit and Privatization. For example, not a day goes by over the right-wing airwaves when they aren't trying to tell their audience about how dangerous and threatening and irrational people are; of course, they then present themselves as the rational protectors of the people as they divide the general public and concentrate wealth and power in their own hands Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy.
Gimbutas's reading of history undercuts the efforts of authoritarian ideologues to convince us that life inevitably is 'nasty and brutish', as Hobbes asserted. Rather, human nature and the societies we develop are capable of much more than the madness we see in so many Hollywood films and D.C. policies. Predictably, her unorthodox archaeolgy has been met with much criticism, but there is a growing number of scholars who agree that humans are much more peaceful than corporate warlords want us to believe. World-renown anthropologist Douglas Fry's work has produced similar revelations The Human Potential for Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions about War and Violence. Beyond academic studies, simply looking at our lives, the people we know, the countless strangers who have shown kindness, the joys of travelling and other experiences confirm that people are generally pretty good The Brighter Side Of Human Nature: Altruism And Empathy In Everyday Life. That we are so traumatized when violence does occur speaks to how contrary to our nature wounding or killing others really is War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation's Veterans from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The fight we need to wage is not with weapons, but with information. It's a fight to resist efforts to pervert our lives and our perception of our species Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill : A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence.
Beautifully filmed and deeply informative, 'Signs Out of Time' is a great tool to subvert the view of human nature that has been imposed on us by those for whom war in a business The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives, or an identity War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning.
See also:
Declarations of Independence
Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Dodo Press) by Peter Kropotkin
Summary of Signs Out of Time: The Story of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas
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