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The Gods of Our Fathers
199450 min 52 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Anne Henderson
Production: Marrin CanellCatherine Mullins (Green Lion Productions Inc.)Kent MartinBob CulbertMark StarowiczDarce Fardy
Script: Gwynne Dyer
Produced by Green Lion Productions Inc. in association with the CBC, with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Société générale des industries culturelles - Québec, and the NFB, and with the financial assistance of Rogers Telefund.
"Human nature" is not fixed. We can, and do, reshape ourselves every time we change our culture. Nor is there anything natural or innate in male domination. In ancient Egyptian villages along the Nile, The Gods of Our Fathers explores the evolution of patriarchy as one effective way of organizing mass societies. The patriarchal order was not inevitable--it was merely functional. But the world is different now, and it's time to find alternatives to hierarchies and militarization.
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Subject categories
- Social Issues > Foreign SocietiesSocietyWomen
- Women > Historical PerspectivesSocial Conditions
- Developing Countries > Middle EastSocial Problems
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Ethical Values
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Feminism
- Civics/Citizenship > Ideologies
- History and Citizenship Education > Neolithic Civilization to the Renaissance
Credits
- director
- Anne Henderson
- producer
- Marrin Canell
- Catherine Mullins
- Kent Martin
- Bob Culbert
- Mark Starowicz
- Darce Fardy
- executive producer
- Catherine Mullins
- co-executive producer
- Stephen Low
- script
- Gwynne Dyer
- cinematography
- Kent Nason
- sound
- Philippe Scultéty
- Dominique Chartrand
- editing
- Anne Henderson
- Yurij Luhovy
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- music
- Osvaldo Montes
- host
- Gwynne Dyer