Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a CivilizationPsychology Press, 2006 - 437 síður Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, this second edition of Barry J. Kemp's popular text presents a compelling reassessment of what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics. Ranging across Ancient Egyptian material culture, social and economic experiences, and the mindset of its people, the book also includes two new chapters exploring the last ten centuries of Ancient Egyptian civilization and who, in ethnic terms, the ancients were. Fully illustrated, the book draws on both ancient written materials and decades of excavation evidence, transforming our understanding of this remarkable civilization. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed, Kemp's work is an indispensable text for all students of Ancient Egypt. |
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... centuries of ancient Egyptian civilization . Barry Kemp's book is an indispensable text for all students of ancient Egypt and for the general reader . Barry Kemp is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge . He is the ...
... centuries be included as well , although this is not my speciality and has led to some of the earlier mate- rial ... century . I have found myself returning time and again to ask myself the question of just what , whether we study ...
... centuries . My ancient Egypt remains , none the less , very much an imagined world , though I hope that it is , like a marquee in a wind , pegged to the ground at many points . The pegs in the case of this book are the endnotes which ...
... centuries , the army . As the full population of the country constantly interacts , the system which they inhabit does not remain stable , as if it were a pot of water endlessly simmering on a low heat . It develops complex swirls of ...
... centuries AD , enthusiastic Egyptian adherents of Christianity rejected altogether their cultural inheritance ( by that time a mix of the Pharaonic and the Greek ) and celebrated , in tales to encourage the faithful , the smashing up ...
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Who were the ancient Egyptians? | 19 |
The intellectual foundations of the early state | 60 |
The dynamics of culture | 111 |
The provider state | 161 |
The bureaucratic mind | 163 |
Model communities | 193 |
Intimations of our future | 245 |
New Kingdom Egypt the mature state | 247 |
The birth of economic man | 302 |
Moving on | 336 |
Epilogue | 387 |
Notes | 389 |
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