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The first Ethiopians : the image of Africa and Africans in the early Mediterranean world / Malvern van Wyk Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Wyk Smith, Malvern, author.
- Series:
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africans--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Africans.
- Africans in art.
- Africans in literature.
- Racism--Egypt.
- Racism.
- History.
- Nubia--History.
- Nubia.
- Ethiopia--History.
- Ethiopia.
- Egypt--History.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Africa--Antiquities.
- Africa.
- Africa--Nubia.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (562 pages) : illustrations (some color), map
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2009.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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 civilizations to Greek and Roman perceptions of Africa; from Khoisan cultural expressions to early Christian conceptions of Africa and its people as ""d.
- Contents:
- Ethiopia, Egypt and the matter of Africa
- Who were the Egyptians?
- The Egypt of Africa : African resonances in predynastic Egypt
- The Egypt of the rock artists
- Africa in Egypt : proto- and early-dynastic manifestations
- Africa in Egypt : dynastic responses
- Africa in Egypt : later dynastic encounters
- The first Ethiopians
- Ethiopians in the Greek and Ptolemaic world
- Ethiopians in the Roman world
- The "Ethiopia" of the early Christian world
- The "real" Ethiopians.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Van Wyk Smith, Malvern. First Ethiopians : The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early Mediterranean World.
- ISBN:
- 9781868146345
- 1868146340
- 9781868148349
- 1868148343
- OCLC:
- 912309489
- Publisher Number:
- 10.18772/12009074990
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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