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Publié par

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Date de parution

20 septembre 2001

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822380078

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

In Black Athena Writes Back Martin Bernal responds to the passionate debates set off by the 1987 publication of his book Black Athena. Producing a shock wave of reaction from scholars, Black Athena argued that the development of Greek civilization was heavily influenced by Afroasiatic civilizations. Moreover, Bernal asserted that this knowledge had been deliberately obscured by the rampant racism of nineteenth-century Europeans who could not abide the notion that Greek society-for centuries recognized as the originating culture of Europe-had its origins in Africa and Southwest Asia.The subsequent rancor among classicists over Bernal's theory and accusations was picked up in the popular media, and his suggestion that Greek culture had its origin in Africa was widely derided. In a report on 60 Minutes, for example, it was suggested that Bernal's hypothesis was essentially an attempt to provide blacks with self-esteem so that they would feel included in the march of progress.In Black Athena Writes Back Bernal provides additional documentation to back up his thesis, as well as offering persuasive explanations of why traditional scholarship on the subject remains inaccurate and why specific arguments lobbed against his theories are themselves faulty.Black Athena Writes Back requires no prior familiarity with either the Black Athena hypothesis or with the arguments advanced against it. It will be essential reading for those who have been following this long-running debate, as well as for those just discovering this fascinating subject.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

20 septembre 2001

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822380078

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

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Black Athena Writes Back

     

Martin Bernal

Edited by David Chioni Moore

Duke University Press Durham & London

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Printed in the United States of America

on acid-free paper 

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by Tseng Information Systems, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-

Publication Data appear on the last

printed page of this book.

For Cyrus Gordon and Michael Astour,

who have led the way.

Contents

Preface ix Transcriptions and Phonetics xiii Maps and Charts xvii

Introduction 

IEgyptology . Can We Be Fair? A Reply to John Baines  . Greece Is Not Nubia: A Reply to David O’Connor 

IIClassics . Who Is Qualiﬁed to Write Greek History? A Reply to Lawrence A. Tritle  . How Did the Egyptian Way of Death Reach Greece? A Reply to Emily Vermeule  . Just Smoke and Mirrors? A Reply to Edith Hall 

IIILinguistics .Ausnahmslosigkeit über Alles: A Reply to Jay H. Jasanoﬀ and Alan Nussbaum 

IVHistoriography . Accuracy and/or Coherence? A Reply to Robert Norton, Robert Palter, and Josine Blok . Passion and Politics: A Reply to Guy Rogers  . The British Utilitarians, Imperialism, and the Fall of the Ancient Model 

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VScience . Was There a Greek Scientiﬁc Miracle? A Reply to Robert Palter . Animadversions on the Origins of Western Science 

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VIRecent Broadening Scholarship . Greek Art Without Egypt,HamletWithout the Prince: A Review of Sarah Morris’sDaidalos and the Origins of Greek Art . One or Several Revolutions? A Review of Walter Burkert’s The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Inﬂuence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age . There’s a Mountain in the Way: A Review of Martin West’s The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth

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Contents

. Phoenician Politics and Egyptian Justice in Ancient Greece

VIIA Popularizing Eﬀort . AllNotQuiet on the Wellesley Front: A Review ofNot Out of Africa Conclusion 

Notes  Glossary  Bibliography  Index 

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Preface

This book and its forthcoming companion volume,Debating Black Athena, have had a long gestation. They were conceived in August  in a diner in Quebec City after a panel onBlack Athenaat the tenth conference of the Inter-national Federation of Societies of Classical Studies at Laval University. We panelists—Valentin Mudimbe, David Chioni Moore, Denise McCoskey, and I—ate and relaxed. In the course of the conversation, I expressed my frustration that Mary Lefkowitz and Guy Rogers were not allowing me to respond in their forthcoming edited volumeBlack Athena Revisited(BAR). What is more, they had refused to include the replies I had already pub-lished to many of the pieces to be contained in their volume. I mentioned that I should like to bring out a collection of my scattered replies in a single book and I wondered whether any publisher would be interested in such a project. Mudimbe and Moore both said that the editors at Duke University Press might like the idea. They thought, however, that a book that moved away from the minutiae of Classics to discuss broader issues aroundBlack Athenawould be more interesting to them and to the Press. We agreed then that it should be possible to combine the two projects. Valentin, David, and Denise put the idea to Reynolds Smith at Duke Press.

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