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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... sources . It uses numerous case studies , illustrating them with artwork expressly prepared for the book from specialist sources . This revised edition adds new chapters on who , in ethnic terms , the ancient Egyptians were , and on the ...
... sources of authority , and especially deserve to be held up to critical scrutiny , for they are often the least benign parts of our inheritance . In producing a revised edition I have tried to accomplish several things at once . One is ...
... sources from ancient Egypt confirm the conclusion that we all share , and have in the past shared , a common consciousness and substratum of unconscious behaviour . We all face the same basic experience , that of existing as a uniquely ...
... sources that I work with are tangible things , ' facts ' . They are tombstones in museums , pictures on temple walls ... source is to be found . This is the crucial difference between what we might term ' rational myth ' my ludicrously ...
... sources . Why then are we not more ant - like than ants themselves ? That many people evidently find the idea unwholesome only underlines the puzzle : why do we not like the idea of living an ordered and perhaps very comfortable hive ...
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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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