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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... tion of people to polities of increasing size , ambition and complexity , sometimes with and sometimes without their consent . When they are small and ' primitive ' we are accustomed to call them chiefdoms . When large , hierarchical ...
... tion is the one factor which makes any study of human behaviour , whether it is ancient history or the modern stock market , so resistant to precise modelling and prediction even if we are armed with adequate data . That factor is ...
... tion also rise in turn ; the picking on weaker neighbours , especially when , from the ashes of war , societies are renewed . But underlying them all is perversity itself , the wish for change born from dissatisfaction with the old and ...
... tion of the evidence , and what the limits are to the inferences that we can draw . And , in seeing myself as more an archaeologist than any other kind of enquirer , I have tried to make archaeological sources speak a little louder than ...
... tion of farmland for the production of a main crop of cereal or flax , but with the watering of only a limited amount of land out of reach of the flood , and confined to vegetable- and flower - beds and orchards maintained all the year ...
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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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