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The First Ethiopians: The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early Mediterranean World
Malvern Van Wyk Smith
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Description for The First Ethiopians: The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early Mediterranean World
Paperback. Explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity. This book provides a survey of the special place that Aksumite Ethiopia has held in European and African conceptual worlds as the site of 'worthy Ethiopia'. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrated in full colour. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; HBJH; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 33. Weight in Grams: 930.
The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity. Inspired by curiosity regarding the origins of racism in southern Africa, Malvern van Wyk Smith consulted a wide range of sources: from rock art to classical travel writing; from the pre-dynastic African beginnings of Egyptian and Nubian civilisations to Greek and Roman perceptions of Africa; from Khoisan cultural expressions to early Christian conceptions of Africa and its people as 'demonic'; from Aristotelian climatology to medieval cartography; and, ... Read more
The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity. Inspired by curiosity regarding the origins of racism in southern Africa, Malvern van Wyk Smith consulted a wide range of sources: from rock art to classical travel writing; from the pre-dynastic African beginnings of Egyptian and Nubian civilisations to Greek and Roman perceptions of Africa; from Khoisan cultural expressions to early Christian conceptions of Africa and its people as 'demonic'; from Aristotelian climatology to medieval cartography; and, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781868144990
SKU
V9781868144990
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Ref
99-15
About Malvern Van Wyk Smith
Malvern van Wyk Smith is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Rhodes University, South Africa.
Reviews for The First Ethiopians: The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early Mediterranean World
... an original and interesting contribution to the scholarship on European views on Africa. Particularly valuable is its detailed discussion of Egyptian and Classical texts dealing with northeast Africa and their relationship to later European racial discourse. The book is well written and likely to appeal to a broad academic and non-academic audience. - Stanley Burstein, California State University, Los ... Read more