High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84553-300-7
Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 944 g

Reihe: Studies in Egyptology and the Ancient Near East

This novel work uses case studies of both familiar and unfamiliar materials, expanding consideration of ancient Egyptian elite culture to encompass lived experience and exploitation of the natural environment. The opening chapter sets out the conceptual ground for the analyses that follow, arguing that the relatively ephemeral activities under investigation were centrally important to the actors. The first and largest study treats human organization of the landscape and its use to create and transmit elite meanings, especially through pictorial and encyclopaedic forms, and to mobilize emotional values. Next, a treatment of the planning of third millennium settlements on the floodplain argues that Egypt offers a partly rural perspective that provides an alternative to the urban focus of many early civilizations but has parallels in elite culture in much of the world. The third study discusses how a single year's events were orchestrated to culminate in a celebratory hunt in which the king, his court, and high officials participated. The concluding chapter presents an initial synthesis of Egyptian treatments of elite experience, drawing upon additional evidence in particular from literary texts and attitudes to travel. Throughout the book, aesthetics and the cultivation of pleasure and delight are emphasized as essential to ancient elite life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baines, John D.

Baines, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte Afrikanische Geschichte: vorkolonial

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface List of Figures Conventions Chronological Table Map 1 Contexts and Representations of High Culture 2 Egypt as a Physical, Social and Represented Landscape 3 A Planned World? The Early City, Patterns and Meanings of Settlement 4 Celebration in teh Landscape: A Hunting Party under Amenemhat II 5 Elite Experience References Index

Über Autor(innen)

Baines, John
John Baines is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford.

John Baines is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford.