"Mutual tribute", eh? That sounds like a special case of the self-eating pancake.
I'm sorry to say, there seems to be a non-trivial extent to which Black American culture is still caught up in reacting to Flinders Petrie. Everyone else has completely forgotten his futile attempts to prove that all Egyptian culture was degenerate borrowings from & imitation of some unknown higher European culture. Complete nonsense of course, & even in a fairly squishy science that seems to go by the wayside eventually. But even the easily-provable fact that Cleopatra VII Philopator was ethnically Greek still arouses such indignation in some circles as to set off wild counterclaims. (The most moderate of these was an assertion that she should be regarded as mixed-race, which alas falls down because the Ptolemies were infamous for inbreeding. She didn't have as many grandparents as normal people.)
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Date: 2019-06-24 10:47 pm (UTC)I'm sorry to say, there seems to be a non-trivial extent to which Black American culture is still caught up in reacting to Flinders Petrie. Everyone else has completely forgotten his futile attempts to prove that all Egyptian culture was degenerate borrowings from & imitation of some unknown higher European culture. Complete nonsense of course, & even in a fairly squishy science that seems to go by the wayside eventually. But even the easily-provable fact that Cleopatra VII Philopator was ethnically Greek still arouses such indignation in some circles as to set off wild counterclaims. (The most moderate of these was an assertion that she should be regarded as mixed-race, which alas falls down because the Ptolemies were infamous for inbreeding. She didn't have as many grandparents as normal people.)