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^ The irony is that most peoples in Africa did not even use tribal divisions at least by Roman times and consisted of larger political states, yet Europe itself remained largely tribal post-Roman era by the Middle Ages. Max Dashu and other scholars point out this hipocrisy in that many of the customs Euros label as "primitive" were practiced by their ancestors, such as tribalism, tribal dances, drums, and shamanism. Even customs like head-hunting and even cannibalism was practiced by littoral Europeans, but you NEVER hear 'Western' historians mention this!
By the way Graham Connah is another excellent scholar with some good books:
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quote:Originally posted by Djehuti: ^ The irony is that most peoples in Africa did not even use tribal divisions at least by Roman times and consisted of larger political states, yet Europe itself remained largely tribal post-Roman era by the Middle Ages. Max Dashu and other scholars point out this hipocrisy in that many of the customs Euros label as "primitive" were practiced by their ancestors, such as tribalism, tribal dances, drums, and shamanism. Even customs like head-hunting and even cannibalism was practiced by littoral Europeans, but you NEVER hear 'Western' historians mention this!
By the way Graham Connah is another excellent scholar with some good books:
^^WHat writings by Dashu point put the double-standards?
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^Cool, after you read the book you can always post interesting excerpts from therein if possible, thanks. Read a few pages from the book few years back, my intention here is to get the idea of when looking towards or talking about Africa to stop with terms like tribes and tribal.
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quote:Originally posted by zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova: ^^What writings by Dashu point put the double-standards?
Dashu was published several articles in various anthropology journals in her studies of European history and folk traditions where she discussed this. I can't remember any specific ones but I do know she is in the process of writing a book called 'Secret History of the Witches' revealing the shamanic origins of European witchcraft and she definitely delves into the history of Europe and how its tribal origins are obfuscated by a biased focus on so-called 'Classical' history of the Roman conquerors and colonizers. She definitely isn't the only scholar though. There are various other scholars of European history who would like to get away from the traditional 'Classicism' or focus on Rome and Greece. Barry Cunliffe, for example is a leading scholar on Celtic studies and he too laments over the fact that most Euro-historians gloss over the Celts and other Roman conquered peoples as merely "barbarians" even though these peoples are their very ancestors!
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Just finished reading what Mind posted. My conclusion is that Eurocentrism is so hardwired into academia that one must examine everything and put it into context. Great read BTW.
quote:There are various other scholars of European history who would like to get away from the traditional 'Classicism' or focus on Rome and Greece. Barry Cunliffe, for example is a leading scholar on Celtic studies and he too laments over the fact that most Euro-historians gloss over the Celts and other Roman conquered peoples as merely "barbarians" even though these peoples are their very ancestors!
The fact is that Europeans and Eurocentrism is grounded in the Classic Greco-Roman thought. Don't forget the modern West is a product of the enlightenment which originally stemmed from the Renaissance. Even the Gothic and Romanesque periods in Europe built off of Roman innovation.
The fact is that without the Greeks and Romans Nordic and Western European culture and engineering would be very similar to African and Asians. I see Eurocentrics harp on Skara Brea for points in a debate but you will never see Europeans putting up Skara Brea in their Eurocentric videos nor will you ever see a building in London or Dublin modeled after Skara Brea or "Celtic" Architecture.
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^ You mean Skara Brae of northern Scotland. Actually Skara Brae is a Neolithic culture that *pre-dates* any Celtic culture which is presumed to have originated in the Danube during the Bronze Age. Suffice to say, even neolithic culture is not indigenous to Europe but introduced there from the so-called 'Near East' and Africa.
But yeah, it is a very ironic point that Dashu and others have pointed out and that is Eurocentrism has been a detriment to European history itself in that only a small fraction of European culture and history is told and that of course being the imperial conquerors and colonizers of Rome. The histories of the indigenous tribal peoples of the rest of Europe get subsumed or are airbrushed aside in favor of the "glorious" oppressors. It's no surprise that this same cycle is then repeated on a global scale with world history itself focused on the 'Western' powers of Europe dominating and colonizing the indigenous peoples in other areas of the world.
Of course Eurocentrism's sickest and most twisted end result is to claim non-European cultures and histories as part of a mythical "Caca-soid" race. Which is why cultures from Mesopotamia to the Nile Valley are glorified but in the image of the 'West'! Posts: 26246 | From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA | Registered: Feb 2005
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Didn't read the quotes yet (by AGÜEYBANÁ), but sympathize with the people interested in the Witch stuff and the Celt stuff.
quote:Originally posted by -Just Call Me Jari-: The fact is that Europeans and Eurocentrism is grounded in the Classic Greco-Roman thought. Don't forget the modern West is a product of the enlightenment which originally stemmed from the Renaissance. Even the Gothic and Romanesque periods in Europe built off of Roman innovation.
The fact is that without the Greeks and Romans Nordic and Western European culture and engineering would be very similar to African and Asians.
Um, actually Africa certainly has Roman like stuff (as I thought you in the past noted), it spread there due to the fact the whole Mediterranean-Nile-West Asian region in general was exchanging influences with one another, and diffused these elsewhere.
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Got this in the mail tonight. It's a lot larger than I expected, so it may take me a while to get through it, but it looks like it'll be an awesome overview of pre-colonial African history and prehistory.
The only joke is YOU! Christopher Ehret is a WHITE linguistics scholar and anthropologist from America. Just because he like SO MANY others acknowledge Afroasiatic's roots in Africa, you now call him an "Afrocentrist"?! LOL I suppose the WHITE linguist Carleton Hodge is also Afrocentrist for coming to the same conclusion, or European scholar Igor M. Diakonoff! Afroasiatic or rather Afrasian or Afrisian's origins in the African continent is a FACT pure and simple! What is truly the joke is your 'Nostratic' theory which was debunked by the very scholars I cited and more!!
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"Afrocentrist" is a phrase they use to label anyone who does'nt parrot their Debunked racialist ideology..
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quote:Originally posted by -Just Call Me Jari-: "Afrocentrist" is a phrase they use to label anyone who does'nt parrot their Debunked racialist ideology..
Not debunked. Races are real. Read the following work -
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^ Hey idiot. Of course human differences exist! It's called bio-diversity. There are a variety of differences phenotypically and genetically between populations and more so individuals however such differences do NOT add up or correspond to racial groups, nitwit!
quote:Originally posted by -Just Call Me Jari-: "Afrocentrist" is a phrase they use to label anyone who doesn't parrot their Debunked racialist ideology..
Well if that's the case then much of Western Academia would be 'Afrocentric' for that matter! LOLPosts: 26246 | From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA | Registered: Feb 2005
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^^lol, here is some more "Afrocentric" thought..
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"The evidence also points to linkages to other northeast African peoples, not coincidentally approximating the modern range of languages closely related to Egyptian in the Afro-Asiatic group (formerly called Hamito-Semetic). These linguistic similarities place ancient Egyptian in a close relationship with languages spoken today as far west as Chad, and as far south as Somalia. Archaeological evidence also strongly supports an African origin. A widespread northeastern African cultural assemblage, including distinctive multiple barbed harpoons and pottery decorated with dotted wavy line patterns, appears during the early Neolithic (also known as the Aqualithic, a reference to the mild climate of the Sahara at this time). Saharan and Sudanese rock art from this time resembles early Egyptian iconography. Strong connections between Nubian (Sudanese) and Egyptian material culture continue in later Neolithic Badarian culture of Upper Egypt. Similarities include black-topped wares, vessels with characteristic ripple-burnished surfaces, a special tulip-shaped vessel with incised and white-filled decoration, palettes, and harpoons...
Other ancient Egyptian practices show strong similarities to modern African cultures including divine kingship, the use of headrests, body art, circumcision, and male coming-of-age rituals, all suggesting an African substratum or foundation for Egyptian civilization.."
-- Source: Donald Redford (2001) The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt, Volume 3. Oxford University Press. p.28
And how 'bout them Badarians...
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Region does not mean "race"--reality versus convention in forensic anthropology. -C. Loring Brace...
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quote:Originally posted by -Just Call Me Jari-: "Afrocentrist" is a phrase they use to label anyone who does'nt parrot their Debunked racialist ideology..
Not debunked. Races are real. Read the following work -
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A further quote from your Cl Brace reference Jari: "Norman Sauer has posed the rhetorical question: if races do not exist, how come forensic anthropologists are so good at identifying them? The simple answer is that, as members of the society that poses the question, they are inculcated into the social conventions that determine the expected answer. They should also be aware of the biological inaccuracies contained in that "politically correct" answer. Skeletal analysis provides no direct assessment of skin color, but it does allow an accurate estimate of original geographical origins." --CL BRace.
^^OK, and based on the skeletal info Brace talks about we have this data:
There you go. The skeletons have it..
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