... contained a core of Afro-Mediterranean race and spoke an Afroasiatic
language. Egyptian civilisation displayed many cultural and political patterns
later to appear elsewhere in the continent, although ... concrete rather than abstract; each moral
quality was personified as a deity; no truly historical sense emerged; learning
consisted of a gigantic catalogue of names and attributes; and...
... linguis-
tically and culturally constructed, I thus accept the traditional anthropo-
logical assumption that certain patterns of grief and mourning are
transcultural and transhistorical. If social “power” ... to proclaim – and to proclaim it
so clearly that no hearer in heaven or earth could miss it – that there was
but one faith and one salvation. David Dewey had lived a life so clearly
st...