The Shining Ones: An Etymological Essay on the Amazigh Roots of Egyptian Civilization [Hardcover]

Helene E. Hagan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2000

This pioneer study investigates the origins of Egyptian civilization from the viewpoint of a North African Anthropologist, aided by a Moroccan linguist in Tamazight (Berber.)

It will appeal to anyone interested in Egypt, and is a must for linguists, scholars, and students in Egyptology, Middle Eastern and North African studies

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Helene Hagan is a North African Ethnologist, born in Morocco. She holds a License-es-Lettres in American Civilization from the University of Bordeaux, France, and two Master's Degrees from Stanford University, one in Linguistics and another in Cultural Anthropology. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 140 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (December 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401024122
• ISBN-13: 978-1401024123
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,638,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Helene E. Hagan was born in Morocco in 1939. She was raised and educated in North Africa. After obtaining a Licence-es-Lettres in British and American Studies from the University of Bordeaux, France, she pursued her studies at Stanford University where she obtained a Master's Degree in French Literature and Education (1971) and later a third Master's Degree in Cultural and Psychological Anthropology (1983)

She raised three children in Palo Alto, California, where she also successfully ran an import business, La Ruche, French Imports. Later, from 1985 to 1990, while teaching as an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Human Consciousness at John F. Kennedy University, she also owned and managed another retail business, Lakota Contemporary American Indian Designs in Marin County, California, where she lived for twelve years. She presently resides in Burbank, California, as the President of the Tazzla Institute for Cultural Diversity she founded in 1993, and more recently as the Executive producer of the Los Angeles Amazigh Film Festival.

She pursued fieldwork both in the south of Morocco, and on Pine Ridge Indian Reservatiion in South Dakota, where she directed a photo project with elders (funded by the South Dakota Council on Humanities) while working at the archives of the Oglala Lakota College, three-Mile Creek,,South Dakota.

She is the author of numerous articles, published in a variety of journals and magazines from 1969 to 2009. Among them, available on the internet are: "Plastic Medicine People" reproduced by many web sites, "The People of Nacirema" (1998), a whimsical anthropological look at life in Marin County, "Apuleius of Madauros, Amazigh Philosopher and World Advocate", and "The Argan Tradition in southwest Morocco" (Vol.14, 2005, The Amazigh Voice) She is the author of two books, "The Shining Ones: Etymological Essay on the Amazigh Origins of Ancient Egyptian Civilisation." (2001) and "Tuareg Jewelry: Traditional Patterns and Symbols",(2005) a study which is far more than an overview of jewelry or a photographic essay. It includes a very profound reflection on the Amazigh perspective of the world held by Tuareg people of Africa. The book was reviewed by a Tuareg scholar who found its insight to be richly accurate and the best ever written on his people in the English language.

Helene's passion is videography. She has created over sixty television programs on her Berber culture,on American Indian topics, and on ecological subjects. A list of those programs, available on dvd's is on her web site at http://www.tazzla.org and you can also consult her two other web sites at www.laaff.org and www.tuaregjewelry.org

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5.0 out of 5 stars A prophetic book, February 1, 2012

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This review is from: The Shining Ones: An Etymological Essay on the Amazigh Roots of Egyptian Civilization (Hardcover)

Bernard Lugan, a French scholar, recently went on French television (2011) to announce a "scientific earthquake", stating that the ancient Egyptian civilization was of Amazigh (Berber) origin. He announced this as a stunning new understanding of ancient history. My book, which explored this very idea, was published in 2001... It was based on solid evidence and evaluation of known data to date. It did not make the news... It is as fresh and pertinent today as it was then.

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2.0 out of 5 stars NOT WORTH PRICE, December 31, 2007

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This review is from: The Shining Ones: An Etymological Essay on the Amazigh Roots of Egyptian Civilization (Hardcover)

Sent the book back when I saw how small it was. It would have been better if it had been $12.95. Book was definitely not worth $30.