Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.
Author : G. Elliot Smith
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2014-03
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ISBN : 9781497993013
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.
Author : Grafton Elliot Smith
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Civilization, Aegean
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Author : Lynn Thorndike
Publisher :
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Civilization
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Author : Debbie Challis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1472502205
How much was archaeology founded on prejudice? The Archaeology of Race explores the application of racial theory to interpret the past in Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian period. It investigates how material culture from ancient Egypt and Greece was used to validate the construction of racial hierarchies. Specifically focusing on Francis Galton's ideas around inheritance and race, it explores how the Egyptologist Flinders Petrie applied these in his work in Egypt and in his political beliefs. It examines the professional networks formed by societies, such as the Anthropological Institute, and their widespread use of eugenic ideas in analysing society. Archaeology of Race draws on archives and objects from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Galton collection at UCL. These collections are used to explore anti-Semitism, skull collecting, New Race theory and physiognomy. These collections give insight into the relationship between Galton and Petrie and place their ideas in historical context.
Author : Jonathan Wright
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 1922
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Author : Robin Derricourt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0857726994
Outsiders have long attributed to the Middle East, and especially to ancient Egypt, meanings that go way beyond the rational and observable. The region has been seen as the source of civilization, religion, the sciences and the arts; but also of mystical knowledge and outlandish theories, whether about the Lost City of Atlantis or visits by alien beings. In his exploration of how its past has been creatively interpreted by later ages, Robin Derricourt surveys the various claims that have been made for Egypt - particularly the idea that it harbours an esoteric wisdom vital to the world's survival. He looks at 'alternative' interpretations of the pyramids, from maps of space and time to landing markers for UFOs; at images of the Egyptian mummy and at the popular mythology of the 'pharaoh's curse'; and at imperialist ideas of racial superiority that credited Egypt with spreading innovations and inventions as far as the Americas, Australia and China. Including arcane ideas about the Lost Ten Tribes of biblical Israel, the author enlarges his focus to include the Levant.His book is the first to show in depth how ancient Egypt and the surrounding lands have so continuously and seductively tantalised the Western imagination.
Author : Baedeker, Karl
Publisher :
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Egypt
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Author : Daniel Gold
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2003-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520929519
This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field. He shows that successful writers on religion employ characteristic aesthetic strategies in communicating their visions of human truths. Gold examines these strategies with regard to epistemology and to the study of religion as a collective endeavor.
Author : Everett C. Borders
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145355940X
Apart Type a book screenplay An extreme close looks at the real origins of mankind & that path of conveyance. The story & content is extremely revealing & enlightening to some and controversial to others. This story borders on the crest of biblical & factual reality.
Author : Brooklyn Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 1910
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