This volume challenges assumptions about—and highlights new approaches to—the study of ancient Egyptian society by tackling various thematic social issues through structured individual case studies.
The reader will be presented with questions about the relevance of the past in the present. The chapters encourage an understanding of Egypt in its own terms through the lens of power, people, and place, offering a more nuanced understanding of the way Egyptian society was organized and illustrating the benefits of new approaches to topics in need of a critical re-examination. By re-evaluating traditional, long-held beliefs about a monolithic, unchanging ancient Egyptian society, this volume writes a new narrative—one unchecked assumption at a time.
Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches is intended for anyone studying ancient Egypt or ancient societies more broadly, including undergraduate and graduate students, Egyptologists, and scholars in adjacent fields.
Edited by:
Danielle Candelora,
Nadia Ben-Marzouk,
Kathlyn M. Cooney
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.120kg
ISBN: 9780367434632
ISBN 10: 0367434636
Pages: 418
Publication Date: 31 August 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"1. Investigating Ancient Egypt’s Societies: Past Approaches and New Directions, 2. Power and the Study of Ancient Egyptian Society, 3. Hidden Violence: Reassessing Violence and Human Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt, 4. Making the Past Present: The Use of Archaism and Festivals in the Transmission of Egyptian Royal Ideology, 5. Divine Kingship and the Royal Ka, 6. Trade, Statehood and Configurations of Power in Ancient Egypt (Early-Middle Bronze Age), 7. The Social Pyramid and the Status of Craftspeople in Ancient Egypt, 8. Ancient Egyptian Decorum: Demarcating and Presenting Social Action, 9. Co-regency in the 25th Dynasty: A Case Study of the Chapel of Osiris-Ptah Neb-ankh at Karnak, 10. The Egyptianization of Egypt and Egyptology: Exploring Identity in Ancient Egypt, 11. Ancient Egyptian ""Origins"" and ""Identity:"" An Etic Perspective, 12. Eight Medjay Walk into a Palace: Bureaucratic Categorization and Cultural Mistranslation of Peoples in Contact, 13. The Value of Children in Ancient Egypt, 14. Orientalizing the Ancient Egyptian Woman, 15. The Ancient Egyptian Artist: A Non-Existing Category?, 16. Hellenistic Warfare and Egyptian Society, 17. Revealing the Invisible Majority: ‘Hegemonic’ Group Artefacts as Biography Containers of the ‘Underprivileged’ Groups, 18. Reevaluating Social Histories: The Use of Ancient Egypt in Contemporary Art, 19. People of Nile and Sun, Wheat and Barley, Copper and Gold: Ancient Egyptian Society and the Agency of Place, 20. Shifting Boundaries, Conflicting Perspectives: (Re)establishing the Borders of Kemet through Variable Social Identities, 21. Urban versus Village Society in Ancient Egypt: A New Perspective, 22. Reassessing the Value of Autobiographical Inscriptions from the First Intermediate Period and ""Pessimistic Literature"" for Understanding Egypt’s Social History, 23. Othering the Alphabet: Rewriting the Social Context of the Formation and Transmission of a New Writing System in the Egyptian Expedition Community, 24. Language Policy and the Administrative Framework of Early Islamic Egypt, 25. New Methods to Reconstruct the Social History of Food in Ancient Egypt: Case studies from Nag ed Deir and Deir el Ballas, 26. Stop and Smell the Flowers: A Re-Assessment of the Ancient Egyptian ""Blue Lotus"", 27. The Body of Egypt: How the Harem Women Physically Connected a King with his Elites."
Danielle Candelora is Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean History at SUNY Cortland and co-director of excavations at South Karnak. She received her PhD in Egyptology from UCLA. Her research focuses on immigration in ancient Egypt, the reception of foreigners, strategies of identity maintenance and advertisement. Nadia Ben-Marzouk is Postdoctoral Fellow at Tel Aviv University and the University of Zurich. Her research explores craft production, producers, and modes of technological transmission in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant, Egypt, and east Mediterranean. She received her PhD from UCLA. Kathlyn M. Cooney is Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Her research in 21st Dynasty coffin reuse focuses on the socio-economic and political aspects of funerary and burial practices in ancient Egypt.
