| Description |
1 online resource |
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Cambridge elements. Elements in ancient Egypt in context |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Ceramic Perspectives on Ancient Egyptian Society -- Contents -- 1 Ceramics as Dataset -- 1.1 Ceramic Research and Egyptian Archaeology -- 1.2 Studying Ceramics: Practical Concerns -- 1.3 The Structure of This Element -- 2 Integration of State and Province -- 2.1 Theories and Methods -- 2.2 Cultural Integration -- 2.3 Socioeconomic Integration -- 2.4 State Dominance and Economic Integration -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Investigating Egyptian Regionalism -- 3.1 Theories and Methods -- 3.2 Ceramic Production |
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3.3 Assessing Localism and Regionalism via Typologies -- 3.4 Egyptian and Foreign -- 3.5 Multi-Scalar Interaction -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 The Relationship of Political to Social Change -- 4.1 Theories and Methods -- 4.2 Cultural Consistency at the Dawn of the Egyptian State -- 4.3 Cultural Continuity Bridging Kingdoms -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5 The Complexity of Private Life -- 5.1 Theories and Methods -- 5.2 Who Were They? Identity, Ethnicity, and Ceramics -- 5.3 Egyptians and the Peoples of the Levant -- 5.4 Egyptians and Nubians -- 5.5 The Domestic Sphere -- 5.5.1 Data Collection |
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5.5.2 Experimental Archaeology -- 5.6 Conclusion -- 6 Finding People through Potsherds -- Glossary -- References -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
This Element demonstrates how ceramics, a dataset that is more typically identified with chronology than social analysis, can forward the study of Egyptian society writ large. This Element argues that the sheer mass of ceramic material indicates the importance of pottery to Egyptian life. Ceramics form a crucial dataset with which Egyptology must critically engage, and which necessitate working with the Egyptian past using a more fluid theoretical toolkit. This Element will demonstrate how ceramics may be employed in social analyses through a focus on four broad areas of inquiry: regionalism; ties between province and state, elite and non-elite; domestic life; and the relationship of political change to social change. While the case studies largely come from the Old through Middle Kingdoms, the methods and questions may be applied to any period of Egyptian history.-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 28, 2021) |
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Pottery -- Egypt -- History
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Antiquities
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Civilization
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Manners and customs
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Pottery
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| SUBJECT |
Egypt -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041263
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Egypt -- Social life and customs -- To 332 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041334
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Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041266
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| Subject |
Egypt
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108881487 |
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1108881483 |
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