AKHU: the Venerated Ancestors of Ancient Egypt is a groundbreaking enquiry which brings together the author’s competence in linguistics, mythology and ethnology as a rich and meaningful investigation of Ancient Egypt. The work includes the support and cultural participation of North African Berber scholars. The book brings out the archaic terminology of earliest hieroglyphic Pyramid texts which the later Greco-Roman vocabulary guiding European scholarship has often masked. Helene H...

The long history of the Black Hills controversy between the Sioux Nation and the U.S. Government involved Yellow Thunder Camp. While the issue has been amply analyzed in many books, it has never been related by someone like this author. It is a first-hand account: the writer lived at YTC, attended court proceedings and established solid friendships with Lakota individuals. In addition to years of research into the Lakota culture, she worked with elders throughout the reservation and was ac...

The Introduction of the book indicates the necessity to start with the archaeology of the early settlements of the West Bank of the Nile , a territory to be considered as the mother or matrix of all Egyptian civilization. It establishes the pioneer nature of this Etymological Essay in the English language, as most of the studies in keeping with its findings are to be found in the scholarly literature of Europe and North Africa.Archaic Terminology: The chapter traces the origi...

For you, it may look like a small unimportant detail, like your thumbnail. But for me, it is the whole vast world. Look at this jewel... here is the ant, here is the hyena, the jackal, the hoof of a horse, that of a gazelle, the sun, the moon, the stars, the good eye... this triangle, this is woman, and here are the eyebrows of the Malignant One, there, laughter... it is all of our lives in one piece of silver.(Translated from the French by Helene E. Hagan, from or...

The author entered the United States at age twenty as a student, schooled in French Literature, Classics and Philosophy. After twenty years of marriage, raising three children and running a French Import business in Palo Alto,, she embarked in her American career as a cultural and psychological anthropologist. She has documented some forty years of fieldwork through a variety of substantial essays, crafting a rare collection of fascinating papers about American Indians and Amazigh (Berber ...

Tazzunt presents a group of Berbers (Imazighen), the Ait Arbaa, who live in the Tessawt Valley of the High Atlas of Morocco, eking out a meager existence from the eroded soil of their rugged environment, by harvesting turnips, millet and maize, and one cash crop of walnuts. They depend also on a simple form of summer pasture. Tazzunt means limit: and it refers to an annual ritual which gathers around the shrine of a local Saint, Sidi Asdal, several villages of the Valley for its celebratio...

This book examines the origin of many Plains Indian families, which began with the union of French trappers and traders with young Indian women in the early days of contact between Europeans and American Indians of the Dakota territory and the Sioux Indian territory of Nebraska. The famous Indian activist Russell Means, who made a name for himself through the activities of the American Indian Movement, the 1973 occupation of the Village of Wounded Knee, an unsuccessful political life, and ...

Born in Rabat, Morocco, Helene E. Hagan received her earlier education in Morocco and at Bordeaux University, France, where she received a Masters Degree in British and American Studies. She also holds two Masters Degrees from Stanford University, California, one in French and Education, and the other in Cultural and Psychological Anthropology. After conducting fi eldwork among the Oglala Lakota people of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, she worked as Associate Professor at the JFK Universit...

An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power.Hatshepsut—the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne—was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father’s family. Her failure to produce a male heir, however, paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut out-maneuvered the mother of Thutmose III, the infant ...

A book that verifies the existence of secret underground chambers beneath the Sphinx and demonstrates its origins as the Egyptian god of the dead, Anubis• Includes an anthology of eyewitness accounts from early travelers who explored the secret chambers before they were sealed in 1926• Reveals that the Sphinx was originally carved as a monumental crouching Anubis, the Egyptian jackal god of the necropolisShrouded in mystery for centuries, the Sphinx of Giza has frus...

The world-renowned Egyptologist explores the reality behind her bestselling historical fiction in this "stunning" look at a remarkable civilization ( Publishers Weekly ).From the author of the Amelia Peabody novels written under the name Elizabeth Peters, this is a fascinating chronicle of an extraordinary people—from the first Stone Age settlements through the reign of Cleopatra and the Roman invasions. Temples, Tombs...

The New York Times– bestselling egyptologist's classic account of daily life in Ancient Egypt—now revised and updated.In Red Land, Black Land Barbara Mertz gives us a fascinating, erudite, and witty glimpse of the human side of ancient Egypt, revealing what everyday life was like for Eyptians from across the social strata. How did they make papyrus? Build a pyramid? How did the men, women, and children of this gl...