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- Narrative Type
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199978484
ISBN-13
9780199978489
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211276092
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lost White Tribe : Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory That Changed a Continent
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Africa / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-015102
Reviews
"A well-researched, well-documented, and highly readable account." --Kirkus "A masterful biography of an idea: the life story of the Hamitic hypothesis and its relationship to the histories of exploration, science, ideas of human origins, and much much more." - New Books Network "Extraordinary...For a book that focuses on long-dead explorers and old scientific texts, The Lost White Tribe feels startlingly relevant to the present political moment." - Religion Dispatches, "A well-researched, well-documented, and highly readable account." --Kirkus "A masterful biography of an idea: the life story of the Hamitic hypothesis and its relationship to the histories of exploration, science, ideas of human origins, and much much more." - New Books Network "Extraordinary...For a book that focuses on long-dead explorers and old scientific texts, The Lost White Tribe feels startlingly relevant to the present political moment." - Religion Dispatches "By using the lost white tribe narratives of the nineteenth century to tell the story of the Hamitic thesis, Robinson delightfully combines the history of exploration, science, and adventure writing into something new: the transnational biography of an idea." -Andrew Evans, American Historical Review, "A well-researched, well-documented, and highly readable account." --Kirkus "A masterful biography of an idea: the life story of the Hamitic hypothesis and its relationship to the histories of exploration, science, ideas of human origins, and much much more." - New Books Network"Extraordinary...For a book that focuses on long-dead explorers and old scientific texts, The Lost White Tribe feels startlingly relevant to the present political moment." - Religion Dispatches"By using the lost white tribe narratives of the nineteenth century to tell the story of the Hamitic thesis, Robinson delightfully combines the history of exploration, science, and adventure writing into something new: the transnational biography of an idea." -Andrew Evans, American Historical Review
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
960.23
Table Of Content
Part I: Stanley's Lost StoryIntroduction: The Interview1. Gambaragara2. Another World3. Early Encounters4. The Story Breaks5. The Curse of Ham6. Oriental Jones7. The Beautiful Skull8. Revising the Hypothesis9. Mutesa10. Great Zimbabwe11. At the SummitPart II: A World Gone White12. The Dynastic Race13. The Aryan Invasion14. Blonde Eskimos15. Tribes of the Imagination16. The White Psyche17. Cracks in the Theory18. The Roof of the World19. Colored by War20. Kennewick Man21. Epilogue What Did Stanley See?Notes
Synopsis
In 1876, in a mountainous region to the west of Lake Victoria, Africa - what is today Ruwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda - the famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley encountered Africans with what he was convinced were light complexions and European features. Stanley's discovery of this African "white tribe" haunted him and seemed to substantiate the so-called Hamitic Hypothesis: the theory that the descendants of Ham, the son of Noah, had populated Africa and other remote places, proving that the source and spread of human races around the world could be traced to and explained by a Biblical story. In The Lost White Tribe, Michael Robinson traces the rise and fall of the Hamitic Hypothesis. In addition to recounting Stanley's "discovery," Robinson shows how it influenced others, including that of the Ainu in Japan; or Vilhjalmur Stefansson's tribe of "blond Eskimos" in the Arctic; or the 9,000-year-old skeleton found in Washington State with what were deemed "Caucasian features." As Robinson shows, race theory stemming originally from the Bible only not only guided exploration but archeology, including Charles Mauch's discovery of the Grand Zimbabwe site in 1872, and literature, such as H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, whose publication launched an entire literary subgenre dedicated to white tribes in remote places. The Hamitic Hypothesis would shape the theories of Carl Jung and guide psychological and anthropological notions of the primitive.The Hypothesis also formed the foundation for the European colonial system, which was premised on assumptions about racial hierarchy, at whose top were the white races, the purest and oldest of them all. It was a small step from the Hypothesis to theories of Aryan superiority, which served as the basis of the race laws in Nazi Germany and had horrific and catastrophic consequences. Though racial thinking changed profoundly after World War Two, a version of Hamitic validation of the "whiter" tribes laid the groundwork for conflict within Africa itself after decolonization, including the Rwandan genocide. Based on painstaking archival research, The Lost White Tribe is a fascinating, immersive, and wide-ranging work of synthesis, revealing the roots of racial thinking and the legacies that continue to exert their influence to this day., Michael F. Robinson traces the rise and fall of the Hamitic Hypothesis, the theory that whites had lived in Africa since antiquity, which held sway in Europe and in Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries., In 1876, in a mountainous region to the west of Lake Victoria, Africa--what is today Ruwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda--the famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley encountered Africans with what he was convinced were light complexions and European features. Stanley's discovery of this African "white tribe" haunted him and seemed to substantiate the so-called Hamitic Hypothesis: the theory that the descendants of Ham, the son of Noah, had populated Africa and other remote places, proving that the source and spread of human races around the world could be traced to and explained by a Biblical story. In The Lost White Tribe , Michael Robinson traces the rise and fall of the Hamitic Hypothesis. In addition to recounting Stanley's "discovery," Robinson shows how it influenced encounters with the Ainu in Japan; Vilhjalmur Stefansson's tribe of "blond Eskimos" in the Arctic; and the "white Indians" of Panama. As Robinson shows, race theory stemming originally from the Bible only not only guided exploration but archeology, including Charles Mauch's discovery of the Grand Zimbabwe site in 1872, and literature, such as H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines , whose publication launched an entire literary subgenre ded icated to white tribes in remote places. The Hamitic Hypothesis would shape the theories of Carl Jung and guide psychological and anthropological notions of the primitive. The Hypothesis also formed the foundation for the European colonial system, which was premised on assumptions about racial hierarchy, at whose top were the white races, the purest and oldest of them all. It was a small step from the Hypothesis to theories of Aryan superiority, which served as the basis of the race laws in Nazi Germany and had horrific and catastrophic consequences. Though racial thinking changed profoundly after World War Two, a version of Hamitic validation of the "whiter" tribes laid the groundwork for conflict within Africa itself after decolonization, including the Rwandan genocide. Based on painstaking archival research, The Lost White Tribe is a fascinating, immersive, and wide-ranging work of synthesis, revealing the roots of racial thinking and the legacies that continue to exert their influence to this day.
LC Classification Number
DT3.R63 2016
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