QWho were the first inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Japan, China, India? Who were the first Arabs? Who were the founders of the brilliant Sumerian civilization? Is Buddhism of African origin? This book tells a fascinating and hidden story that begins more than 100000 years ago. It upsets all our certainties about the first great civilizations of Asia. It shakes up the single thought that reigns in certain circles of scientific and historical research. Because from the 19th century to the present day, many historians, archaeologists and anthropologists have been accomplices in a vast enterprise of falsifying history and the role of Africans in the civilizations of antiquity, in Asia and elsewhere. Yet the vestiges of the African presence on the Asian continent are so considerable that, until recently, Asia was considered to be the homeland of Africans. Runoko Rashidi examines a mass of written documents, works in anthropology and linguistics, the results of archaeological excavations, the history of the first Asian religions, the artistic and iconographic heritage of Asia, etc. The track followed here by the author leads us to the distant Japan of the first samurai, passing through the Iraq of the Sumerians, India of the Indus Valley and Buddha, China, Angkor...
H. Imbert, a French anthropologist who has lived in the Far East, says:
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Part Number | black & white illustrations |
Is Adult Product | |
Release Date | 2013-10-01T00:00:01Z |
Edition | 1 |
Language | Français |
Number Of Pages | 158 |
Publication Date | 2013-10-01T00:00:01Z |