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July 22, 2022

From Bastard to Knight of the Realm: The Spectacular Success Story of Sir Ernest Wallis Budge

Geoffrey Clarfield

A pivotal figure in the field of Egyptology, Assyriology, and biblical studies, Sir Ernest Wallis Budge was an illegitimate child of the Victorian age who succeeded against the odds. Today he is casti......

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December 27, 2021

Primitive Mentality, Modern Civilization, and the Fate of Anthropology: A Conversation with Professor Christopher Hallpike

Geoffrey Clarfield

Anthropologist Geoffrey Clarfield talks to Christopher Hallpike, an anthropologist who challenged the suffocating scholarly consensus that “people are the same everywhere” and “that......

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June 23, 2017

Can We Talk? Tom Wolfe's "The Kingdom of Speech"

Peter Wood, Carol Iannone and Geoffrey Clarfield

In the Summer 2017 Academic Questions (vol. 30, no. 2), Peter Wood, Geoffrey Clarfield, Glynn Custred, and Carol Iannone review Tom Wolfe's new book The Kingdom of Speech.

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