Recasting ancient Egypt in the African context
Subtitle: toward a model curriculum using art and language
By: Clinton Crawford.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Art, Egyptian.; Egyptian language.; Curriculum change -- United States.; Multiculturalism -- United States.; Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C.; Egypt -- Civilization -- African influences.; Egypt -- Civilization -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Description: This is a timely piece which seeks to place Egypt in its true historical context. It captures the substantial, unmistakable evidence for the indigenous African origin of the ancient Egyptians. It also examines the genius behind their invaluable achievement in concretizing and codifying the heiroglyphic system of writing that they inherited from their ancestors. It explains their mastery of the arts and sciences as displayed in their monumental architectural feats.

And finally it analyzes their highly organized - surprisingly, matriarchal - social system which made it possible for so many of their unsurpassed contributions to be bequeathed to human cultures everywhere. Unlike conventional treatments of ancient Egypt, however, this innovative text renders the collected data accessible to layman and expert alike through its framework of suggested curriculum outlines, thus ensuring this book's usefulness to the general public as well as to educational institutions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-178) and index.