Gee, John

The message of the Joseph Smith papyri: an Egyptian endowment

by Gee, John, Nibley, Hugh, Rhodes, Michael D.

fromThe collected works of Hugh Nibley

0 Type: Book

Translation and discussion of Egyptian religion as it relates to the Book of Abraham, and papyri (from the Book of breathings) held to be the source of that book.

This dissertation tells the history of progressive colonial anthropology, an ultimately-failed effort to establish cultural anthropologists as authoritative indigenous affairs policy experts in the Americas. Tracing this project in the US and Mexico from the 1930s to the 1980s, …