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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.
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Transcriptions and Phonetics
Maps and Charts
Introduction
I Egyptology
1. Can We We Fair? A Reply to John Baines
2. Greece is Not Nubia: A Reply to David O’Connor
II Classics
3. Who is Qualified to Write Greek History? A Reply to Lawrence A. Tritle
4. How Did the Egyptian Way of Death Reach Greece? A Reply to Emily Vermeule
5. Just Smoke and Mirrors? A Reply to Edith Hall
III Linguistics
6. Ausnahmslosigkeit über Alles: A Reply to Jay H. Jasanoff and Alan Nussbaum
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IV Historiography
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7. Accuracy and/or Coherence? A Reply to Robert Norton, Robert Palter, and Josine Blok
8. Passion and Politics: A Reply to Guy Rogers
9. The British Utilitarians, Imperialism, and the Fall of the Ancient Model
V Science
10. Was There a Greek Scientific Miracle? A Reply to Robert Palter
11. Animadversions on the Origins of Western Science
VI Recent Broadening Scholarship
12. Greek Art Without Egypt, Hamlet Without the Prince: A Review of Sarah Morris’s Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
13. One or Several Revolutions? A Review of Walter Burkert’s The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age
14. 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
15. Phoenician Politics and Egyptian Justice in Ancient Greece
VII. A Popularizing Effort
16. All Not Quiet on the Wellesley Front: A Review of Not Out of Africa
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Transcriptions and Phonetics
Maps and Charts
Introduction
I Egyptology
1. Can We We Fair? A Reply to John Baines
2. Greece is Not Nubia: A Reply to David O’Connor
II Classics
3. Who is Qualified to Write Greek History? A Reply to Lawrence A. Tritle
4. How Did the Egyptian Way of Death Reach Greece? A Reply to Emily Vermeule
5. Just Smoke and Mirrors? A Reply to Edith Hall
III Linguistics
6. Ausnahmslosigkeit über Alles: A Reply to Jay H. Jasanoff and Alan Nussbaum
>
IV Historiography
>
7. Accuracy and/or Coherence? A Reply to Robert Norton, Robert Palter, and Josine Blok
8. Passion and Politics: A Reply to Guy Rogers
9. The British Utilitarians, Imperialism, and the Fall of the Ancient Model
V Science
10. Was There a Greek Scientific Miracle? A Reply to Robert Palter
11. Animadversions on the Origins of Western Science
VI Recent Broadening Scholarship
12. Greek Art Without Egypt, Hamlet Without the Prince: A Review of Sarah Morris’s Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
13. One or Several Revolutions? A Review of Walter Burkert’s The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age
14. 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
15. Phoenician Politics and Egyptian Justice in Ancient Greece
VII. A Popularizing Effort
16. All Not Quiet on the Wellesley Front: A Review of Not Out of Africa
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Produktdetails
Erscheinungsdatum
20. September 2001
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
576
Autor/Autorin
Martin Bernal
Herausgegeben von
David Chioni Moore
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
gebunden
Gewicht
1048 g
Größe (L/B/H)
241/163/43 mm
ISBN
9780822327066
Pressestimmen
"A fascinating and important debate. As a lay reader I find both the scholarly arguments and the human differences very gripping. Bernal tells the story of the process of academic diffusion very vividly and gives us the kind of background we don't usually discover." - Margaret Drabble "Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind sharp and his analyses often convincing." - Richard Jenkins, The Times Higher Education Supplement "Black Athena must be the most discussed book on the ancient history of the eastern Mediterranean world since the Bible... [It] enjoys such continued attention because it raises important scholarly questions, and because it makes a difficult subject available to a large audience." - Mario Liverani, in Black Athena Revisited "Few books published about the ancient world since World War II have provoked as much interest both inside and outside the discipline of classics as has Black Athena."-Guy MacLean Rogers, in Black Athena Revisited " Fourteen years ago, a tiny London publisher brought out a 600-page academic study of Ancient Greece... within months Black Athena had become--as one historian said--probably the most hotly debated book about the ancient Mediteranean since the Bible. That first volume was soon reissued by Random House as a mass-market paperback. Broadsheet editors pontificated in a dozen countries about Bernal's claims. TV documentaries were made, and symposia convened. A whole cottage industry of attacks and couter-attacks developed around Bernal's work. Black Athena Writes Back, his new collection of replies to his critics, is just the latest instalment in an unending saga."--The Independent, 29 December 2001 " ... I follow with continuing fascination the astonishing academic debate on deep history in Martin Bernal's Black Athena Writes Back--one of the strangest intellectual confrontations of our time."--Margaret Drabble, The Independent, 1 December 2001
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