it draws from many sources, including the study of myth and linguistics as well as archeological findings by the Indo-Europeanists J. The Chalice and the Blade traces the tension between these two models, starting in prehistory. There is also gender partnership and a low degree of abuse and violence, as it is not needed to maintain rigid top down rankings. The partnership model consists of a democratic and egalitarian structure in both the family and state or tribe, with hierarchies of actualization where power is empowering rather than disempowering (as in hierarchies of domination). This model consists of an authoritarian structure in both family and state or tribe, rigid male dominance, and a high degree of abuse and violence.
religion, with difference equated with superiority or inferiority. The domination model ranks man over man, man over woman, race over race, and religion vs. These categories transcend conventional categories such as ancient vs. On the other end are societies orienting to the dominator or domination model. On one end of the continuum are societies orienting to the partnership model. Eisler places human societies on what she calls the partnership-domination continuum. The Chalice and the Blade compares two underlying types of social organization in which the cultural construction of gender roles and relations plays a key role.
It highlights the importance of how a society constructs the relations between the male and female halves of humanity, as well as between them and their daughters and sons, taking into account findings from both the biological and social sciences showing the critical importance of the “private” sphere of family and other intimate relations in shaping beliefs and behaviors. Ī distinguishing feature of the study of relational dynamics is that it pays particular attention to matters that are marginalized or ignored in conventional studies.
Its sources include cross-cultural anthropological and sociological surveys, and studies of individual societies as well as writings by historians, analyses of laws, moral codes, art, literature, scholarship from psychology, economics, education, political science, philosophy, religious studies, archeology, the study of myths and legends and data from more recent fields such as primatology, neuroscience, chaos theory, systems self-organizing theory, non-linear dynamics, gender studies, women’s studies, and men’s studies. Drawing from a transdisciplinary database, it applies this approach to a wide-ranging exploration of how humans think, feel, and behave individually and in groups. The study of relational dynamics is an application of systems analysis: the study of how different components of living systems interact to maintain one another and the larger whole of which they are a part. In contrast to earlier studies of society, this method addresses the question of what kinds of social systems support our human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity, or alternately for insensitivity, cruelty, and destructiveness. The method of social analysis that led to The Chalice and the Blade is the study of relational dynamics. A New Multidisciplinary Method of Social Analysis
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