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Black Athena comes of age / edited by Wim van Binsbergen. - Berlin : Piscataway, NJ : Lit ; Distribution in North America by Transaction Publishers, c2011. - 367 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm. - [Afrikanische Studien ; African studies ; Bd. 44 = Bd. 44] . - Afrikanische Studien (Münster in Westfalen, Germany) ; Bd. 44. .

Series entry missing in the book. Subtitle on cover: Towards a constructive re-assessment.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / by Wim van Binsbergen -- Black Athena ten years after : towards a constructive re-assessment / by Wim van Binsbergen -- Responses to Black Athena : general and linguistic issues / by Martin Bernal -- The ancient toponyms of Mallia : a post-Eurocentric reading of Egyptianising Bronze Age documents / by Jan Best -- Alternative models of intercontinental interaction towards the earliest Cretan script / by Wim van Binsbergen -- Consonants in collision : Neith and Athena reconsidered / by Arno Egberts -- Response to Arno Egberts / by Martin Bernal -- Proof and persuasion in Black Athena I : the case of K.O. Müller / by Josine H. Blok -- Response to Josine Blok / by Martin Bernal -- Rethinking Africa's contribution to global cultural history : lessons from a comparative historical analysis of mankala board-games and geomantic divination / by Wim van Binsbergen -- Is there a future for afrocentrism despite Stephen Howe's dismissive 1998 study? / by Wim van Binsbergen -- The bee-sign (Evans no. 86) : an instance of Egyptian influence on Cretan hieroglyphic / by Fred Woudhuizen -- The limits of the Black Athena thesis and of afrocentricity as empirical explanatory models : the *Borean hypothesis, the Back-into-Africa hypothesis and the Pelasgian hypothesis as suggestive of a common, West Asian origin for the continuities between Ancient Egypt and the Aegean, with a new identity for the goddess Athena / by Wim van Binsbergen.

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Bernal, Martin. Black Athena.


Greece--Civilization--Egyptian influences.
Greece--Civilization--Phoenician influences.
Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.
Greece--Historiography.

DF78 / .B53 2011

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