Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient EgyptRoutledge, 1. maí 2014 - 240 síður The pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, has been the subject of more speculation than any other character in Egyptian history. This provocative new biography examines both the real Akhenaten and the myths that have been created around him. It scrutinises the history of the pharaoh and his reign, which has been continually written in Eurocentric terms inapplicable to ancient Egypt, and the archaeology of Akhenaten's capital city, Amarna. It goes on to explore the pharaoh's extraordinary cultural afterlife, and the way he has been invoked to validate everything from psychoanalysis to racial equality to Fascism. |
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... writing from the publishers . British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Montserrat , Dominic , 1964 ...
... writing from the publishers . British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Montserrat , Dominic , 1964 ...
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... Writing this book reminded me repeat- edly of how this dialogue had made me ask questions I would otherwise never have considered . Hence my search for Akhenaten's modern reincarnations led me off into territories that academic ...
... Writing this book reminded me repeat- edly of how this dialogue had made me ask questions I would otherwise never have considered . Hence my search for Akhenaten's modern reincarnations led me off into territories that academic ...
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... Writing this book reminded me repeat- edly of how this dialogue had made me ask questions I would otherwise never have considered . Hence my search for Akhenaten's modern reincarnations led me off into territories that academic ...
... Writing this book reminded me repeat- edly of how this dialogue had made me ask questions I would otherwise never have considered . Hence my search for Akhenaten's modern reincarnations led me off into territories that academic ...
Síða 4
... writer was H. R. Hall ( 1873-1930 ) , Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum , and author of The Ancient ... writing to congratulate Weigall on the second , revised edition of his bestseller The Life and Times of Akhnaton ...
... writer was H. R. Hall ( 1873-1930 ) , Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum , and author of The Ancient ... writing to congratulate Weigall on the second , revised edition of his bestseller The Life and Times of Akhnaton ...
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... writing cultural history : they were involved with much more immediate struggles . This was brought home when I moved on to the writings of alternative religionists . I was struck by the racist assumptions that seemed to underlie some ...
... writing cultural history : they were involved with much more immediate struggles . This was brought home when I moved on to the writings of alternative religionists . I was struck by the racist assumptions that seemed to underlie some ...
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The archaeologies of Amarna | 56 |
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Protestants psychoanalysts and Fascists | 95 |
Race and religion | 117 |
Literary Akhenatens | 139 |
Sexualities | 168 |
Epilogue | 183 |
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