Socio-Economic Relations in Ptolemaic Pathyris

A Network Analytical Approach to a Bilingual Community. Volume 1.
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50027-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40.1, 562 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1104 g

Reihe: Probleme der Ägyptologie

This study tackles pertinent questions about daily life and socio-economic interactions in the late Ptolemaic town of Pathyris (186-88 BCE) through an empirically grounded network analysis of 428 Greek and Demotic documents associated with 21 archives from the site.

The author moves beyond traditional boundaries of Egyptological and Papyrological research by means of an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology – zigzagging back and forth between archaeological field survey, close reading of ancient texts, formal methods of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and explanatory theories and concepts borrowed from economics and other social sciences.

This is volume 1 of a two-volume set.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tambs, Lena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1 Main Objectives

2 Choosing the Case Study and Defining Research Boundaries

3 The Structure of the Work

4 Notes on Readability

2 Contextualisation

1 The Geographical Area of Focus

2 Historical Contextualisation

3 The Army of the Ptolemies

4 The Inhabitants of Ptolemaic Pathyris

5 The Bilingual Character of the Community

3 Theories and Methods

1 Interdisciplinarity in Egyptological Research

2 Main Methodological Approach (Social Network Analysis)

3 Zigzagging between Methodological Approaches

4 Theoretical Framework (Social and Economic Analysis)

4 The Source Material and Data Collection Process

1 Archaeological Evidence

2 Written Sources

3 Incorporated Material

4 From Texts to Networks

5 Notes on Data Collection and Conventions

5 The Archives as 2-Mode and 1-Mode Networks

1 2-Mode and 1-Mode Network Models of the Ancient Archives

2 Notes on the Possibilities and Limitations of the Source Material

6 The Source Material in Comparative and Whole Network Perspectives

1 Comparing the 2-Mode Models of People in Texts

2 The Sources Modelled as an Interarchival 2-Mode Whole Network

7 Interpersonal Ties in Comparative, Whole Network and Diachronic Perspectives

1 Comparing the 1-Mode Models of Interpersonal Relationships

2 The Pathyris Community Modelled as a 1-Mode Whole Network

3 Diachronic Analysis of the Community Model

8 Social and Economic Life in Ptolemaic Pathyris

1 The Physical Landscape

2 The Socio-economic Landscape

3 Social and Economic Life in Ptolemaic Pathyris

4 Concluding Remarks on Community Life in Ptolemaic Pathyris

9 Assessing (Social) Network Analysis as a Historical Method

1 Strengths and Shortcomings of Historical (Social) Network Analysis

2 Strengths and Shortcomings of the Studied Source Material

3 Strengths and Shortcomings of the Applied Methodology

4 The Relevance of (S)NA Research for (Micro)historical Studies of the Past

10 Conclusions

1 The Main Objectives of the Research Project

2 Final Conclusions

3 Future Perspectives

Bibliography

Indices

Über Autor(innen)

Lena Tambs, Ph.D. (2020), University of Cologne, is a postdoctoral researcher at the CoE in Ancient Near Eastern Empires, University of Helsinki. Her most recent article is ‘Ancient Archives and Network Models: The Case of Pathyris (ca. 165-88 BCE)’ (2020).