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Bibliography for anarchoprimitivism and its growing popularity (since a loud minority of very online people are being 'skeptical' of this)

Proof that young people, especially young women, are done with modern tech/medicine and prefer holistic spiritualism and alternative/indigenous medicines: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/05/21/3-in-10-americans-consult-astrology-tarot-cards-or-fortune-tellers/ (43% of young women believe the stars dictate their fates. This is not merely ‘dabbling for fun’ but actual literal belief) https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/12/07/spiritual-beliefs/ (more than half of young people believe in animism, nature spirits, ancestor veneration and a whole host of other ancient metaphysical ideas) https://catholicexchange.com/spiritual-but-not-religious-a-closer-look-at-womens-predominance-in-this-movement/ (women are far likelier to believe in animistic spirituality, in fact the majority do) https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/view/herbs-and-adolescent-girls-avoiding-hazards-self-treatment (this source admits most young women use eastern medicine but whines about this fact) http...
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A devil's advocate rejoinder to the theory of indigenous matriarchy

     In my previous article, I discussed the book Matriarchal Societies by Heide Gottner-Abendroth and my generally positive (with a few qualifications) appraisal of this work. In the spirit of fairness, however, and given the highly speculative nature of any theory which back-projects onto a prehistoric past, I feel it is best to present the best "steel man" critique I can muster to the hypothesis of human's prehistoric matriarchal nature. This does not mean that I am personally "sold" on matriarchal prehistory being false, and in fact I think the Gottner-Abendroth version of this theory (as opposed to some older, highly essentialist versions of it) may well turn out to be accurate. I certainly believe it is a good deal more plausible than the standard evo-psych narrative of prehistoric, universal patriarchy in which men's paternity anxiety and 'natural' competitiveness ends up somehow creating stereotypical gender-linked behaviors (such as higher m...
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Were the matriarchalists right all along? A review of Heide Gottner-Abendroth's "Matriarchal Societies"

     In 2012, German author Heide Gottner-Abendroth quietly and with little fanfare reached a personal landmark. After decades of writing and deep analysis of historical and anthropological resources, all of which had failed peer review by the conventional, self-appointed Academic Expert Community, she finally managed to inch her magnum opus, a hefty tome titled Matriarchal Societies, though the agonizing peer-review process, and into mainstream publication. This was a tremendous shock at the time, given the long-standing academic bigotry against anything to with the concept of matriarchy, and even more shocking given that the general consensus in 2012-era academia was that matriarchal theory was dead, 1980s-1990s era sociobiology had irrevocably won the debate, and only a few crazy boomer New Age grandmas still paid attention to "all that Marija Gimbutas crap from the 70s".     Fast forward to 2024, and a quiet revolution is in the process. Last year saw the hi...
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