Africa & Africans in Antiquity Contributor(s): Yamauchi, Edwin M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0870135074 ISBN-13: 9780870135071 Publisher: Michigan State University Press OUR PRICE: $26.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - History | Ancient - General |
Dewey: 960.1 |
LCCN: 2001001603 |
Lexile Measure: 1540 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 324 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - African |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Africa and Africans in Antiquity assesses recent historical research and archaeology under way in Egypt, North Africa, the Sudan, and the Horn of Africa. Whereas many European and American scholars of earlier generations believed that Egyptian contacts with Africa to the south were not culturally significant, research contained in this important collection rejects such notions. At the same time, the volume takes issue with Afrocentric scholars who argue that most Egyptians were 'black' and that blacks are the rightful heirs to Egypt's past grandeur. These ten thought-provoking essays demonstrate that this large region was an ethnic and cultural mosaic in antiquity, a place where Phoenicians, Berbers, Greeks, as well as Egyptians and Nubians interacted. |