The El Dorado Ruled by the Ashanti Kings
Prehistoric archeology, the reconstruction of cultures which have ceased to exist, or of ones now greatly changed from their ancient forms, has traditionally been an important part of anthropology. “Dead” cultures have not had any appreciable attention in Practical Anthropology, however, because the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1960
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Practical anthropology
Year: 1960, Volume: 7, Issue: 6, Pages: 273-275 |
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| Summary: | Prehistoric archeology, the reconstruction of cultures which have ceased to exist, or of ones now greatly changed from their ancient forms, has traditionally been an important part of anthropology. “Dead” cultures have not had any appreciable attention in Practical Anthropology, however, because their study does not lend itself to the goals of the magazine in the obvious ways of some of the other articles. In the article which follows, and we hope occasionally in the future, we do publish a brief, non-technical account of an earlier period of a people, and with a purpose which is very much a part of PA's reason for being. The feeling that “native” peoples are inferior — racially, physically, intellectually inferior — dies hard even among the servants of Christ. Perhaps it will help to have this reminder that when they were first discovered, and before they were disrupted by the West, some. African states were politically, artistically, and technologically comparable to many European states of their time. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical anthropology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182966000700607 |