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How much was archaeology founded on prejudice? The Archaeology of Race explores the application of racial theory to interpret the past in Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian period. It investigates how material culture from ancient Egypt and Greece was used to validate the construction of racial hierarchies. Specifically focusing on Francis Galton's ideas around inheritance and race, it explores how the Egyptologist Flinders Petrie applied these in his work in Egypt and in his politi
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Debbie Challis; Bloomsbury Group
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781472502193
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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