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WINGS #04-16 DEMOTING VENUS

Archaeologists disagree about female figurines

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Length: 0:28:48
Uploaded: 15 May, 2016

Recording Date: 14 May, 2016
Recording Location: Den Haag and Amsterdam, Netherlands; Denman Island BC Canada
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Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
Copyright: Creative Commons License
WINGS #04-16 Demoting Venus by Mindy Ran and WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Program Title: WINGS #04-16 DEMOTING VENUS
Description: Millions of female figurines have been found by archaeologists, spanning some 40,000 years. Some say they are sex symbols, some say they are realistic portraits of ancient women. Dr. van der Meer's views are more complex and incorporate cross-disciplinary research findings.

Host(s): Mindy Ran
Featured Speakers/Guests: Dr. Annine van der Meer, director of the Pansophia Institute in the Netherlands, and the author of The language of MA the primal mother: The evolution of the female image in 40,000 years of global Venus Art (Demeter Press, 2015)

Credits: Produced by Mindy Ran; series producer, Frieda Werden

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Topic:
Arts and Culture > Visual Arts
Politics > Feminism
Spirituality and Religion
Regional > Europe
Society and Culture > Women
Type: Weekly Program

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