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Laddar... Black Athena : the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilizationav Martin Gardiner Bernal
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Black Athena, an audacious three-volume series, strikes at the heart of today's most heated culture wars. Martin Bernal challenges Eurocentric attitudes by calling into question conventional explanations for the origins of classical civilization. Provocative, passionate, and colossal in scope, this thoughtful rewriting of history continues to stir academic and political controversy. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Volume 1 has a rather lengthy and polemical demonstration that the study of ancient history has too often been shot through with racist assumptions. Although 19c German historiography isn't my forte, I gather this part has good grounding. Apart from that, volume one is a sort of striptease for Bernal's actual thesis, the "afro-asiatic roots of Greek civiliation," heavy on the tease and light on the strip.
Volume 2 presents the actual argument, and even Bernal's supporters had to concede the effort fell far short of the promise. Freeing himself from 19th-century racism, Bernal's method doesn't rise above 19th-century techniques. His archaeology is unsystemmatic and speculative. His linguistics is not recognized as such by real linguists, although it seems like linguistics to others (real linguistics is more than a game of playing with sounds to make words come from other words).
By the time the third volume came out, I, at least, stopped caring what he had to say. Perhaps he redeemed the argument in volume three. I doubt it. ( )