Views of Ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte: Imperialism Colonialism and Modern AppropriationsTaylor & Francis, 12. okt. 2012 - 250 síður The discipline of Egyptology has been criticized for being too insular, with little awareness of the development of archaeologies elsewhere. It has remained theoretically underdeveloped. For example the role of Ancient Egypt within Africa has rarely been considered jointly by Egyptologists and Africanists. Egypt's own view of itself has been neglected; views of it in the ancient past, in more recent times and today have remained underexposed. Encounters with Ancient Egypt is a series of eight books which addresses these issues. The books interrelate, inform and illuminate one another and will appeal to a wide market including academics, students and the general public interested in archaeology, egyptology, anthropology, architecture, design and history. This book addresses some of the main themes of the study of Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In a combination of case studies and discursive chapters, the status of Egypt as an important example of traditional Orientalist scholarship, and as an ancient model of imperialism itself, is examined. Contributions range from studies of nineteenth century antiquarianism, and the collecting of Egyptian antiquities as an extension of the territorial ambitions and rivalries of the European powers, to explorations of how Egypt is understood and interpreted in contemporary societies. Views of Ancient Egypt also considers the way in which Ancient Egypt has been adopted by less privileged members of some societies as a cultural icon of past greatness. |
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... contemporary cultures regarded Ancient Egypt. The books in this series address such topics. Another exceptional feature of this series is the way that the books have been designed to interrelate with, inform and illuminate one another ...
... contemporary social and political discourse. His recent publications include Nationalism and Archaeology in Europe (1996, ed. with Margarita Diaz-Andreu), England's Coastal Heritage (1997, ed. with M. Fulford and A. Long), and 'The ...
... contemporary and Ancient Egypt; and James Bruce (1813) as a pioneer explorer of the Upper Nile in the 1790s. The result of the Commission's work, the encyclopedic Description de l'Égypte (Anderson and Fawzi 1987; Gillispie and Dewachter ...
... contemporary or near-contemporary literate societies, and in addition to its huge, colourful and lively representational record, Egypt presents a greater than usual quantity and range of documents with some human appeal, such as private ...
... contemporary approaches, but this failed signally to happen to any lasting extent. It is perhaps another curiosity that this injection of new experience and new approaches from all over the world, which had the most telling effect on ...
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