Egypt
Subtitle: ancient histories, modern archaeologies
By: edited by Rachael J. Dann and Karen Exell
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781604978490
Subjects: Civilization; Social life and customs; Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology)
Work titles: Egypt (2013)
Description: "This book covers Egyptian history from the Predynastic to the late Roman Period. It also introduces early contemporary literary references to ancient Egypt and uses a number of theoretical approaches to interrogate the archaeological and textual data. The book engages with wider trends from the humanities, which have found currency in archaeological studies, such as materiality, performativity, corporeality, embodiment, identity, and popular culture studies. Egyptian material is explored via these themes, to create nuanced and contextual interpretations of particular sites, events, artefacts and practices. It makes an important contribution to furthering the fields of Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology, as well as in the wider context of archaeological theory."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : ancient histories, modern archaeologies  -- Karen Exell and Rachael J. Dann; title: Predynastic burial rituals  -- Alice Stevenson; title: Structuration and the graphical in early dynastic culture  -- Kathryn E. Piquette; title: Sidestepping belief  -- Karen Exell; title: Substances of the self in ancient Egypt  -- Rachael J. Dann; title: Intersecting identities in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt  -- Rachel Mairs; title: The maid and the mummy -- Jasmine Day.