Ancient Egyptian society : challenging assumptions, exploring approaches /: challenging assumptions, exploring approaches. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Danielle Candelora, Nadia Ben-Marzouk, Kathlyn M. Cooney.
• Editors: Candelora, Danielle; Ben-Marzouk, Nadia; Cooney, Kara
• Contents: Introduction 1. Investigating Ancient Egypt’s Societies: Past Approaches and New Directions Danielle Candelora, Nadia Ben-Marzouk, and Kathlyn M. Cooney Section I: Power 2. Power and the Study of Ancient Egyptian Society Nadia Ben-Marzouk 3. Hidden Violence: Reassessing Violence and Human Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt Roselyn A. Campbell 4. Making the Past Present: The Use of Archaism and Festivals in the Transmission of Egyptian Royal Ideology Jeffrey Newman 5. Divine Kingship and the Royal Ka Jonathan Winnerman 6. Trade, Statehood, and Configurations of Power in Ancient Egypt (Early-Middle Bronze Age) Juan Carlos Moreno García 7. The Social Pyramid and the Status of Craftspeople in Ancient Egypt Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod 8. Ancient Egyptian Decorum: Demarcating and Presenting Social Action John Baines 9. Co-regency in the 25th Dynasty: A Case Study of the Chapel of Osiris-Ptah Neb-ankh at Karnak Essam Nagy Section II: People 10. The Egyptianization of Egypt and Egyptology: Exploring Identity in Ancient Egypt Danielle Candelora 11. Ancient Egyptian "Origins" and "Identity" S. O. Y. Keita 12. Eight Medjay Walk into a Palace: Bureaucratic Categorization and Cultural Mistranslation of Peoples in Contact Kate Liszka 13. The Value of Children in Ancient Egypt Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod 14. Orientalizing the Ancient Egyptian Woman Jordan Galczynski 15. The Ancient Egyptian Artist: A Non-Existing Category? Dimitri Laboury and Alisée Devillers 16. Hellenistic Warfare and Egyptian Society Christelle Fischer-Bovet 17. Revealing the Invisible Majority: "Hegemonic" Group Artefacts as Biography Containers of the "Underprivileged" Groups Gianluca Miniaci 18. Reevaluating Social Histories: The Use of Ancient Egypt in Contemporary Art Nicholas R. Brown Section III: Place 19. People of Nile and Sun, Wheat and Barley: Ancient Egyptian Society and the Agency of Place Kathlyn M. Cooney 20. Shifting Boundaries, Conflicting Perspectives: (Re)establishing the Borders of Kemet Through Variable Social Identities Danielle Candelora 21. Urban versus Village Society in Ancient Egypt: A New Perspective Nadine Moeller 22. Reassessing the Value of Autobiographical Inscriptions from the First Intermediate Period and "Pessimistic Literature" for Understanding Egypt’s Social History Ellen Morris 23. Othering the Alphabet: Rewriting the Social Context of a New Writing System in the Egyptian Expedition Community Nadia Ben-Marzouk 24. Language Policy and the Administrative Framework of Early Islamic Egypt Jennifer Cromwell 25. New Methods to Reconstruct the Social History of Food in Ancient Egypt: Case Studies from Nag ed Deir and Deir el Ballas Amr Khalaf Shahat 26. Stop and Smell the Flowers: A Re-Assessment of the Ancient Egyptian "Blue Lotus" Robyn Price 27. The Body of Egypt: How Harem Women Connected a King with his Elites Kathlyn M. Cooney, Chloe Landis and Turandot Shayegan
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 932.01; Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C; Egypt -- Social life and customs -- To 332 B.C
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000636253; 9781000636222; 9781003003403
• Related ISBNs: 9780367418281; 9780367434632
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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