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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-35-48.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-35-48.png[/IMG][/URL] http://www.amazon.com/ANCIENT-EGYPT-AFRICA-Encounters-Ancient/product-reviews/1598742051/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 By [b](zarahan)- Enrique Cardova[/b] (Entebbe, Uganda) - See all my reviews This review is from: ANCIENT EGYPT IN AFRICA (Encounters With Ancient Egypt) (Paperback) Excellent roundup of scholarship and hard data showing African foundations of Ancient Egypt. Just some examples of this detailed scholarship.... ".. but his [Frankfort's] frequent citations from African ethnography- over 60 are listed in the index- demonstrate that there is a powerful resonance between recent African concepts and practice on one hand, and ancient Egyptian kingship and religion on the other.." Rowlands (Chapter 4) provides much additional evidence suggesting that 'sub-Saharan Africa and ANcient Egypt share certain commonalities in sunstantative images and ideas, yet whose cultural forms display differences consistent with perhaps millennia of historical divergence and institutionalization'. "First, kingship in Egypt was 'the channel through which the powers of nature flowed into the body politic to bring human endeavour to fruition' and thus was closely analogous to the widespread African belief that 'chieftains entertain closer relationship with the powers in nature than other men' (Frankfort 1948: 33, ch. 2). Second, the Egyptian king's metaphorical identification as an all powerful bull who tramples his enemeis and inseminaes his cow-mother to achieve regeneration was derived from Egyptian ideas and beleifs abut cattle for which best prallels can be found in some, but not all, recent African societies.." "Like the chiefs discussed by Rowlands, the king combines 'life giving forces with the power to kill" (Rowlands, CHaptr 4:52). Overall, this Egyptian concept of kingship, so akin to African models, seems very different to that held in the ancient Near ast (Frankfort 1948; Postgate 1995)" "In conclusion, there is a relative abundance of ancient materials relevant to contact and influence, as well as striking correlations between ancient Egyptian civilization and the ethnography of recent and current sub-Saharan communities, chiefdoms and states... Perhaps the fact that commonalities do exist suggests that, because of great time depth and different organization, these commaniities may result from inherently African processes." --David O'Connor, Andrew Reid (2007) ANCIENT EGYPT IN AFRICA. pp 15-22 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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