ABSTRACT
MATRIKA (Motherhood and Traditional Resources, Information, Knowledge, and Action) was a three-year participatory action research project in collaboration with four local NGOs during the years 1998-2001. MATRIKA is named after a group of female figures, usually either seven or eight, depicted in sculpture and myth as collective and semi-divine beings-and associated with mothering. The MATRIKA images include voluptuous beauties-one with an infant, theriomorphic (human body with animal head) figures and a wizened crone (for more detail see Panikkar 1997).
