Grafton Elliot Smith, Egyptology & the Diffusion of Culture : A Biographical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781845194819 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 168 str.

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A complete biography of Grafton Elliot Smith, this work shows how his ideas were developed in the context of his life and times, examining the debates they aroused, his attempts to incorporate anthropology within a broader interdisciplinary school under his leadership in London, and his opposition to Nazi race theory in the 1930s. Illustration how he rose from a colonial Australian background to dizzying heights in the British scientific establishment, this biography tells how Smith became a world authority on neuroanatomy and human prehistory and was best known publicly for his challenging theory of cultural diffusion, crossing the boundaries of anthropology, archaeology, and history, stemming from his expert knowledge of evolution. This work also details Smith s ground-breaking dissection of thousands of mummies in Egypt during the great excavations of the 1900s."