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...Harvard professor has resigned from the Cambridge University Press (CUP) editorial board after the organization withheld a book from publication because it feared violent retaliation by Greek nationalists...
Professor of Anthropology Michael Herzfeld has accused CUP of infringing on academic freedom in the wake of its decision not to publish Anastasia Karakasidou's study on Greek-Macedonian identity...
...controversy over Karakasidou's work, Fields of Wheat, Rivers of Blood, stems from her assertion that residents of the Greek province Macedonia may consider themselves Slavo-Macedonian rather than Greek. The conclusion, if true, would threaten Greek authority in that region...
...past, this issue has ignited militant activism by Greek nationalists. At the height of the controversy in the summer of 1994, Karakasidou herself received death threats from nationalists...
Afrocentrists claim that Greek philosophy is based on an Egyptian "mystery system," embodied in the secret initiation rites of certain ancient religious cults. Lefkowitz makes the ingenious but plausible argument that the little we know about those ceremonies comes not from historical sources but from an 18th century novel, Sethos, by the French Abbe Jean Terrasson (1670-1750). His fanciful speculations about old Egypt were incorporated into Masonic rituals. Thus the Afrocentrists' purported knowledge of Egypt, Lefkowitz contends, can be traced back to the mystical lore of black Masonic lodges in the West Indies...