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Africa and Africans in antiquity / edited by Edwin M. Yamauchi.
- Title
- Africa and Africans in antiquity / edited by Edwin M. Yamauchi.
- Publication
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2001.
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- Description
- xv, 324 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Africa and Africans in Antiquity assesses 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 the 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 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."--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Africa & Africans in antiquity
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Note
- Revision of papers originally presented at a conference on "Africa and Africans in Antiquity" on Mar. 1-2, 1991, at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Afroasiatic / Carleton T. Hodge -- Egypt and Nubia : Old, Middle, and New Kingdom eras / Frank J. Yurco -- Egypt and the Kushites : Dynasty XXV / Edna R. Russmann -- The Kingdom of Meroe / Stanley M. Burstein -- The Ballaña kingdom and culture : twilight of classical Nubia / William Y. Adams -- The Berbers of the Maghreb and ancient Carthage / Reuben G. Bullard -- An archaeological survey of the Cyrenaican and Marmarican regions of northeast Africa / Donald White -- Attitudes towards Blacks in the Greek and Roman world : misinterpretations of the evidence / Frank M. Snowden, Jr. -- Some remarks on the processes of state formation in Egypt and Ethiopia / Kathryn A. Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich -- Colonizing the past : origin myths of the great Zimbabwe ruins / Maynard W. Swanson.
- ISBN
- 0870135074 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001001603
- OCLC
- 46474076
- SCSB-10681134
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library