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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... past and a pointer to a future failure of humanity - which is with us now to face the terrible destructive consequences of many of those achievements . I would like history to be a record of the struggle to be free of the craving for ...
... past shared , a common consciousness and substratum of unconscious behaviour . We all face the same basic experience , that of existing as a uniquely impor- tant individual , looking out into a world that recedes away from the circle of ...
... past than now . Institutions are another kind , and ancient Egypt possessed many , principally the court , the many temples and , in the later centuries , the army . As the full population of the country constantly interacts , the ...
... past we are spared from having even to contemplate such a fantastic world , because infor- mation at that level of completeness and intrusiveness is lost for ever . The study of the past cannot , therefore , be anything other than an ...
... past . We can formally recognize its end with the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 BC , which initiated three centuries of rule by Macedonian kings ( the Ptolemies ) who managed to live in Greek style in Alex- andria ...
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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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