Product details

Format:

Paperback

Language of text:

English

Isbn-13:

9781845194819, 978-1845194819

Author:

Paul Crook

Publisher:

Liverpool University Press

Imprint:

Liverpool University Press

Publication date:

2011-10-06

Product dimensions:

159mm (w) x 227mm (h) x 11mm (d)

Overview

Grafton Elliot Smith rose from a colonial Australian background to dizzying heights in the British scientific establishment. He became a world authority on neuroanatomy and human prehistory, holding chairs at Cairo, Manchester and University College, London. He 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. Most controversy raged about his Egyptiantheory, which placed ancient Egypt as the dynamic source from which major elements of civilisation were spread by the migration of peoples and mores. This vision stemmed from his ground-breaking dissection of thousands of mummies in Egypt during the great excavations of the 1900s. His speculations, made in association with thinkers such as W H R Rivers and W J Perry, bore fruit in a spate of publications that sparked global debate, arousing particular anger from American ethnologists opposed to ideas of foreign influ

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