![]() This striking survival of mother-right culture was simply deleted from the maps De Meo showed, which depicted all of North Africa as one bleak expanse of patriarchy. Helene Claudot-Hawad (who married into a Tuareg community) rejected the presentations as “essentialist.” It collapses the origin of patriarchy down to a single factor, and failed to address the presence of the Tuareg in the Sahara. Malika Grasshoff spoke quite passionately in defense of her Kabyle culture. The North African women felt that De Meo’s analysis seriously misrepresented the Saharan cultures. Unfortunately there was no time for most critics to voice our objections. Others, including me, were much more disturbed at the content of the presentation itself, and felt that De Meo, even before his responses were interrupted, wasn’t addressing the concerns being raised. Many people were upset that the moderator cut off his responses. An outcry followed James De Meo’s presentation, which proposed that patriarchy arose in “Saharasia” because of desertification. I felt impelled to write down my thoughts about the controversy that erupted on the last day of the World Congress on Matriarchy in Luxembourg, 2003. ![]() Flaws of the Saharasia Hypothesis of James DeMeo mĬontroversy Over DeMeo’s Saharasia hypothesis ![]()
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