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Object Worlds In Ancient Egypt

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Author : Lynn Meskell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-01-07

Object Worlds In Ancient Egypt written by Lynn Meskell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Social Science categories.

Egypt looms large in the Western imagination. Whether it is our attraction to pharaonic art, the pyramids or practices of mummification, Egypts unique understanding of materiality speaks to us across space and time. Is it because the ancient Egyptians fetishized material objects that we find their culture captivating today? And what exactly do Egyptian remains tell us about biography, embodiment, memory, materiality, and the self? Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt takes New Kingdom Egypt (1539-1070 BC) as its starting point and considers how excavated objects reveal the complex ways that ancient Egyptians experienced their material world. From life to death, the material world instantiated, reflected and influenced social life and existence for ancient Egyptians. Thus, in Meskells unique approach to the materiality and sensuousness of subjects and objects, we uncover the philosophical, spiritual and human meanings embedded in these cultural artefacts. Meskells book explores the fundamental existential questions that not only preoccupied ancient Egyptians, but continue to fascinate people today. What is the essence of persons and things? How might we understand the situated experiences of material life, the constitution of the object world and its shaping of human experience? How might objects successfully mediate between worlds? In the final analysis, Meskell moves forward through time and examines the consumption and appreciation of these Egyptian material objects in the contemporary world. Materiality is our physical engagement with the world, our medium for inserting ourselves into the fabric of that world and our way of constituting and shaping culture in an embodied and external sense. From that perspective it is very much the domain of anthropology and archaeology.Drawing on a wide range of objects, artefacts, and artwork, from Valley of the Kings through to Las Vegas, Meskell provides an elegant analysis of the aesthetics of ancient Egyptian material culture

The Material World Of Ancient Egypt

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Author : William H. Peck
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-12

The Material World Of Ancient Egypt written by William H. Peck and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-12 with Art categories.

Examines the objects and artifacts, the representations in art, and the examples of documentation that reveal the day-to-day life of ancient Egyptians.

Objects And Materials

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Author : Penny Harvey
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-16

Objects And Materials written by Penny Harvey and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-16 with Social Science categories.

There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the affective dimensions of human sociality. This Companion focuses on the objects and materials found at centre stage, and asks: what matters about objects? Objects and Materials explores the field, providing succinct summary accounts of contemporary scholarship, along with a wealth of new research investigating the capacity of objects to shape, unsettle and exceed expectations. Original chapters from over forty international, interdisciplinary contributors address an array of objects and materials to ask what the terms of collaborations with objects and materials are, and to consider how these collaborations become integral to our understandings of the complex, relational dynamics that fashion social worlds. Objects and Materials will be of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities, including in sociology, social theory, science and technology studies, history, anthropology, archaeology, gender studies, women’s studies, geography, cultural studies, politics and international relations, and philosophy.

The Egyptian World

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Author : Toby Wilkinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-09-18

The Egyptian World written by Toby Wilkinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-18 with History categories.

Authoritative and up-to-date, this key single-volume work is a thematic exploration of ancient Egyptian civilization and culture as it was expressed down the centuries.Including topics rarely covered elsewhere as well as new perspectives, this work comprises thirty-two original chapters written by international experts. Each chapter gives an overvi

Unwrapping Ancient Egypt

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Author : Christina Riggs
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-04-10

Unwrapping Ancient Egypt written by Christina Riggs and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-10 with Social Science categories.

First runner-up for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies 2015. In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth was a ritual that lay at the core of Egyptian society. Yet in the modern world, attention has focused instead on unwrapping all the careful arrangements of linen textiles the Egyptians had put in place. This book breaks new ground by looking at the significance of textile wrappings in ancient Egypt, and at how their unwrapping has shaped the way we think about the Egyptian past. Wrapping mummified bodies and divine statues in linen reflected the cultural values attached to this textile, with implications for understanding gender, materiality and hierarchy in Egyptian society. Unwrapping mummies and statues similarly reflects the values attached to Egyptian antiquities in the West, where the colonial legacies of archaeology, Egyptology and racial science still influence how Egypt appears in museums and the press. From the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Arab Spring, Unwrapping Ancient Egypt raises critical questions about the deep-seated fascination with this culture – and what that fascination says about our own.

The Material World Of Ancient Egypt

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Author : William H. Peck
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-12

The Material World Of Ancient Egypt written by William H. Peck and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-12 with Social Science categories.

The Material World of Ancient Egypt examines the objects and artifacts, the representations in art, and the examples of documentation that together reveal the day-to-day physical substance of life in ancient Egypt. This book investigates how people dressed, what they ate, the houses they built, the games they played, and the tools they used, among many other aspects of daily life, paying great attention to the change and development of each area within the conservative Egyptian society. More than any other ancient civilization, the ancient Egyptians have left us with a wealth of evidence about their daily lives in the form of perishable objects, from leather sandals to feather fans, detailed depictions of trades and crafts on the walls of tombs, and a wide range of documentary evidence from temple inventories to personal laundry lists. Drawing on these diverse sources and richly illustrating his account with nearly one hundred images, William H. Peck illuminates the culture of the ancient Egyptians from the standpoint of the basic materials they employed to make life possible and perhaps even enjoyable.

Cultural Histories Of The Material World

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Author : Peter N. Miller
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2013-07-23

Cultural Histories Of The Material World written by Peter N. Miller and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-23 with History categories.

All across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality. This is the first book to capture and study the “material turn” in the humanities from all its varied perspectives. Cultural Histories of the Material World brings together top scholars from all these different fields—from Art History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Folklore, History, History of Science, Literature, Philosophy—to offer their vision of what cultural history of the material world looks like and attempt to show how attention to materiality can contribute to a more precise historical understanding of specific times, places, ways, and means. The result is a spectacular kaleidoscope of future possibilities and new perspectives.

Highways Byways And Road Systems In The Pre Modern World

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Author : Susan E. Alcock
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2012-05-15

Highways Byways And Road Systems In The Pre Modern World written by Susan E. Alcock and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.

Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World reveals the significance and interconnectedness of early civilizations’ pathways. This international collection of readings providing a description and comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of transport and communication across pre-modern cultures. Offers a comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of overland transport and communication networks across pre-modern cultures Addresses the burgeoning interest in connectivity and globalization in ancient history, archaeology, anthropology, and recent work in network analysis Explores the societal, cultural, and religious implications of various transportation networks around the globe Includes contributions from an international team of scholars with expertise on pre-modern India, China, Japan, the Americas, North Africa, Europe, and the Near East Structured to encourage comparative thinking across case studies

Contemporary Art And The Display Of Ancient Egypt

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Author : Alice Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2025-01-16

Contemporary Art And The Display Of Ancient Egypt written by Alice Stevenson and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-16 with Art categories.

Artistic interventions are now a popular means of delivering fresh perspectives on museum displays, including in galleries devoted to ancient Egypt. Installations are commonly said to put the past and present ‘into dialogue’ with each other, offering external critical voices on the work of decolonisation. Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt argues that the contemporary and the ancient do not necessarily inform each other. Instead they are mediated by, and mediations of, the museum that produces them. Rather than explore how contemporary artists have been inspired by Egypt, this book examines how they have shaped the language and discourse around study of the Egyptian past by looking at the wider field of public display in which both have been historically situated. Building on this critical history of practice, the book draws from experiments in bringing contemporary artistic sculptures, conceptual pieces, multimedia films, sounds, smells and performances into galleries: at the British Museum in London, the Egyptian Museum in Turin and the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich. These are used to explore what contemporary art does in these spaces, the motivations for inviting artists in, and the legacies of those interventions. It ends with a reflection on how academics and curators can be involved in the creative process and how artists contribute to academic research. Praise for Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt ‘This is an important and innovative study on the recent history of incorporating art installations in galleries of Egyptian antiquities. Offering a thoughtful, critical analysis of the ways in which contemporary art and ancient artefacts are juxtaposed in museum settings, the book calls for a more nuanced and politically engaged practice of collaboration between artists and Egyptologists.' Stephanie Moser, University of Southampton ‘Archaeologist Alice Stevenson provides a thoughtful consideration of the goals and intent behind contemporary art interventions in exhibitions of ancient Egyptian art. She challenges the curators, scholars and museum professionals who design these exhibitions to move beyond the simplistic ancient art/contemporary art juxtaposition, and instead use contemporary art interventions to create spaces for both artistic and academic insight and inspiration. I look forward to such dialogue!' Kara Cooney, UCLA

Daemons And Spirits In Ancient Egypt

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Author : Carolyn Graves-Brown
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2018-09-01

Daemons And Spirits In Ancient Egypt written by Carolyn Graves-Brown and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-01 with History categories.

It deals with artefacts from the Egypt Centre. This is a little known but important collection. It deals largely with themes rarely or not at all discussed in separate volumes. The theme of daemons is particularly current in academic Egyptology. It should appeal to both academic and non-academic readers.