Society and Death in Ancient Egypt
Subtitle: Mortuary Landscapes of the Middle Kingdom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 7, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780521840330
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; Social Science; Civilization; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Ancient Egypt; Social conditions; Anthropology - Cultural; Archaeology; Social Science / Archaeology; Egypt; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Tombs
First sentence: DISCUSSIONS REGARDING THE RISE OF A MIDDLE CLASS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN GENERAL in ancient Egypt, have only recently begun to invoke broader theoretical and cross-cultural models in the analysis of these phenomena.