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MoreGaghPlease t1_iu3150s wrote

Reply to comment by LordOverThis in Ancient City of Magdala Unearthed Near Tiberias, Israel by GullyShotta

A lot of it is also about how media portrays “biblical archeology / history” and tends to talk over the actual academics.

Like I remember a scholar a few years back who wrote a very thoughtful book about the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. It was an examination of how different groups around the world have used the legend as a basis to form a communal identity and to orient themselves in relation to their religious texts. And of course media ran the story as ‘new book located the lost tribes of Israel’ or something to that effect.

(Of course, the tribes were never “Lost”, the Hebrew bible says exactly where they went and what they did, which is totally supported by the archeology and external sources and also common sense: the Assyrians forcibly exiled their political elites, many fled south as refugees to Judea, and rural commoners stayed where they were, with many continuing to practice the Israelite tradition all the way through to when Judea was re-established in the Persian period aka ‘the people of the land’ as they’re called in Ezra-Nehemiah).

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Jaded247365 t1_iu2vxd9 wrote

Reply to comment by elmonoenano in Bookclub Wednesday! by AutoModerator

A recent book that backs this up is:

Born of Lakes and Plains, by Anne F. Hyde (Norton). “A new way of looking at the American West emerges in this history of the mixing and marrying of Indigenous people and settlers. Beginning with the fur trade, Hyde shows how marriage and procreation were crucial to integrating newcomers and building alliances. Commerce relied on networks of kin, and, as Native American clans would share knowledge only with those they considered family, mixed-descent children were vital intermediaries. The stories of five families through the nineteenth century illustrate how these intermediaries were also vulnerable to racist and expansionist policies. Though some were forced to hide their heritage, Hyde highlights their acts of agency, and tells "a narrative of our past with shared blood at its heart."

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goldenkicksbook t1_iu2igo2 wrote

Reply to comment by toaster404 in Fall of the East India Company by Vailhem

Fascinating. Having both Indian and British parentage I’ve often felt conflicted about Britain’s history in India. On trips to India I’ve been struck by the fact that despite hundreds of years of British rule, India is still India. By that I mean Indian cultures, languages and religion seem on the face of it to have survived largely intact from British rule. Based on your reading do you think was this because the British were unable to change them or simply uninterested?

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