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Ancient Egypt : Anatomy of a Civilization
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Works abbreviated by title -- Institutional and publisher abbreviations -- Works abbreviated by author and title -- Introduction -- Seen through the lens of culture -- Seen through the le...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
: Routledge
, 2018
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| Edition: | 3rd ed |
| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=5426749 |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Ancient Egypt : Anatomy of a Civilization |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Works abbreviated by title -- Institutional and publisher abbreviations -- Works abbreviated by author and title -- Introduction -- Seen through the lens of culture -- Seen through the lens of knowledge: theories of everything -- Seen through the lens of human agency -- Perversity and disorder -- Summary of content -- The Egyptian setting in space and time -- Notes -- Part I Establishing identity -- 1 Who were the ancient Egyptians? -- The imagined community -- Building frontiers -- Opening the gates -- Becoming Egyptian -- The archaeology of immigration -- Land of promise -- The peopling of Egypt -- Three thousand years of pooling -- Imagining Egyptians -- Notes -- 2 The intellectual foundations of the early state -- The inescapable state -- Ideology and legitimacy -- The Egyptians' view of the past -- A capacity for realism -- Fear of political disorder -- The Egyptian myth of the state -- The formation of the state: a model for early Egypt -- Foundations of ideology (1): local tradition -- Foundations of ideology (2): the containment of unrule -- Foundations of ideology (3): architecture as political statement -- Notes -- 3 The dynamics of culture -- Pinning down the gods -- Communicating via objects -- Early shrines -- Elephantine -- Tell Ibrahim Awad -- Tell el-Farkha -- Abydos -- Hierakonpolis -- Coptos -- Medamud -- The roots of formal culture -- Folk culture? -- Ideal types in architecture -- The role of individual initiative -- Notes -- Part II The provider state -- 4 The bureaucratic mind -- Entering the scribal mind -- Rations -- Management and labour (and did slaves build the pyramids?) -- Building the pyramids -- Notes -- 5 Model communities -- Early town layouts and the 'village horizon'. Pyramid towns in the Old Kingdom -- Planning at its height: the Middle Kingdom town of Kahun -- Urban renewal and colonization -- The Nubian forts -- The Second Cataract forts -- The prescriptive society -- Notes -- Part III Intimations of our futures -- 6 New Kingdom Egypt: the mature state -- Temples and their staffs -- Monarchy and the cult of Amun -- Thebes: the ceremonial city -- The Theban city of the dead -- Amenhetep III's Sed-festivals -- Secular powers -- The multicultural court -- Army and temple -- The information society and the illusions of pageantry -- Notes -- 7 The birth of economic man -- The state sector: its power and its failings -- The power of private demand -- Economics without money -- Notes -- 8 Egypt in microcosm: the city of Amarna -- The founder: Akhenaten, 'the heretic king' -- The foundation: Akhetaten, 'Horizon of the Aten' -- The arena of royal display -- Imagining the city at work -- Where the people lived -- Imagined worlds at Amarna -- The quality of life and where do we go from here? -- Notes -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (415 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781351166478 |
