Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt
"Private Life in New Kingdom Egyptis a happy example of a synthesis of factual knowledge and theoretical questioning. It has much to say, both about a particular and well-documented society and about the nature of the suppositions that a modern scholar needs to bring to such a society to make sense of it. . . . [It] brings together an impressive range of material, sets this material sensibly in context and uses the testimony of an ancient society to remind us what it is to be human, and how life's challenges and limitations need to be met."--John Ray,Times Higher Education Supplement"Drawing on extensive archaeological and textual evidence . . . Meskell draws a richly nuanced picture of life in an Egyptian village in New Kingdom Egypt, using the concept of human life cycle as her organizing framework."--Choice"For [general readers] the book will clearly be an extremely useful source for understanding the private lives of the Egyptians at this time. For Egyptologists it should provide a unified, up-to-date view of this aspect of the subject and Lynn Meskell has done scholars a service in writing it."--Helen Strudwick,Antiquity"Informative, well researched, entertaining, and [it] makes an important contribution to the field."--Ellen Morris,Journal of Egyptian Archaeology