Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 28 No. 1, 2008.
Original scientific paper
Everything Regards Gardening. The Spear from Tool to Weapon, the Town from Garden to Fortress
Rajka Polić
Abstract
The contribution of women in the development of culture is directly linked to the very concept of colere, which originates from the activity regarding the growing of plants and agriculture, in which women had a significant historical role. As gatherers, women dug up plants and learned how to grow them themselves. This started a culture of gardening that permanently implanted the concept of paradise, a place on earth where humans are very happy, in the human conscience. It took just one step from the gardening culture to agriculture, key for mankind as much as the social position of women. The role of women in creating the basis for developed cultures is gradually forgotten. A spear, tool in the hands of woman, have became and remained exclusively weapon in the hands of man. Besides, she was accused for the loss of paradise on earth, and with time pronounced as the danger for a potential life in a future paradise. Patriarchate as the rule of chosen men, experiences its pinnacle in capitalism, but it is also in that period and its ideology where many questions arose about it. Its maintenance becomes an obstacle for future social development. Therefore, the attempts to reinterpret past events are necessary for unpatriarchal re-culturization, which would enable a future of both man and culture.
Keywords
city/town; spear; culture; man; patriarchate; paradise; gathering; garden; agriculture; woman
Hrčak ID:
23153
URI
Publication date:
7.4.2008.
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