The archaeology of race:

Challis, Debbie

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“…34 Moreover, he saw the value those depictions could have for eugenic interpretations, immediately writing a letter to Galton. 35 The second season, under increased commute pressure due to dealers operating in the Fayum, 36 he dived into the fieldwork on important occasions, or when he thought that 'far more skill and care than a native workman would use' was needed 39 -acting like 'a proto-Indiana Jones' as Price puts it. 40 At the same time, his notes prove abundantly that it was, as Stevenson describes, an 'imperative to provide for collections that was in his mind's eye […], not the archaeological landscape that might be revealed'.…”

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“…90 Petrie systematically provided human data 91 and 'len[t] the authority of historical evidence to the eugenics movement'. 92 Nevertheless, Egyptology might be indebted to him, and Hawara's original documentation shows how valuable his efforts were and remain. The archives continue to offer opportunities for further research, providing much more information than the publications and allowing us to reconstruct archaeological frameworks and recontextualise artefacts, as the Horuta examples have shown along the paper (Figure 10).…”

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Petrie at Hawara: Pioneering Debatable Standards?

Brügger

2022

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology

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Flinders Petrie's first two seasons in Hawara, between 1888 and 1889, and their subsequent exhibitions in London, were arguably pivotal for the career of the British archaeologist. They also provide a wealth of documentation in his own hand to better understand the man. But to better critique him, this paper aims to reassess Petrie's mindset, field work, and results in Hawara, first by the standards he began to craft for himself in the field, before briefly taking a modern perspective to complete the critical picture.To evaluate Petrie's work by his own ambition, what could be more appropriate than to take him at his word? In the seminal Methods & Aims in Archaeology of 1904, he would neatly set out his vision and the practicalities for the discipline. This assessment proffers to proceed along the original processual chapters of the book to examine how Petrie's practices in Hawara in 1888-1889 already pioneer the theory he would consolidate 15 years later, while incorporating the latest research views. The main sources for this review are, by order of relevance, threefold: first, his original handwritten documentation from two so-called 'Journals' collected from letters, eight excavation 'Notebooks' and three 'Day Diaries'; second, his publications for both seasons; and third, his autobiographical pieces.It appears that the 'Father of Egyptian Archaeology' did not entirely live up to his nascent ambition, leaving a contentious legacy to this day. The urge of the 'salvage man', trapped in contradictions, produced good results for the time but may also have led him astray in terms of aims and methods.

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Petrie at Hawara: Pioneering Debatable Standards?

Brügger

2022

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology

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Hierarchy, Religion and Race: Nineteenth Century Philology and the Search for the Origins of the Egyptian Language

Davis

2022

J. Egypt. Hist.

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During the nineteenth century, early Egyptologists were still in the first stages of understanding Egyptian grammar, while at the same time comparative philologists were attempting to reconstruct the historical origins of languages and peoples. These two disciplines intersected and produced various models that situated the Egyptian language into broader world histories. This article explores how early Egyptological scholars during the mid-nineteenth century like Christian Bunsen, Richard Lepsius, and Leo Reinisch, as well as a constellation of figures from comparative philology, drew boundaries around the Egyptian language and speculated about its origins. Their work belonged to a broader intellectual culture where historical language – the nuts and bolts of grammar – became scientific data that revealed biblical truth for some, underpinned the divergent intellectual foundations of civilization for others, and for yet more determined the fate of a people in a manner that prefigured and eventually joined with biological racism.

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The archaeology of race:

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Petrie at Hawara: Pioneering Debatable Standards?

Petrie at Hawara: Pioneering Debatable Standards?

Hierarchy, Religion and Race: Nineteenth Century Philology and the Search for the Origins of the Egyptian Language

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