Comments on: Cleopatra’s murdered sister?

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:39:00 +0000

I’m not sure the Kennewick Man controversy is aptly placed under the reductionist, pseudo-nationalist umbrella. There are other issues in play there — ancestor worship, the religious bond to a specific geography, the long history of callous treatment of native human remains — that don’t quite match the Afrocentrism and Sinocentrism of the other two examples.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:00:18 +0000

The phenomenon of ascribing uniquely African characteristics to people who are, ultimately, as much a part of the Mediterranean as anywhere, is part of the same reductionist, pseudo-nationalist nonsense that drove a certain Native American tribe to claim Kennewick Man and deny him to the Smithsonian, or the Chinese to decapitate Uighur mummies with caucasoid skull types.

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:46:59 +0000

Understandably so. There’s plenty of bah humbug to go around on this story.

By: sv

sv — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:14:16 +0000

seriously?
Thats it not paying the t.v license any more.
wow, kinda negative today.

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:26:42 +0000

No kidding. And there’s a sensationalist BBC “documentary” to air.