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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... academic machinery. Although the first army commanders and officers to arrive in the country showed little interest in its archaeology, or at most regarded visits to archaeological sites and monuments as merely recreational ...
... academic merit and put excavators under a contractual obligation to report their findings and to submit important objects for selection by the authorities. Significantly, for over a century the head of the Service was also automatically ...
... academic profession; or exploited by an occult fringe exemplified by Alastair Crowley (Hornung 2001: 173); or for that matter was open to anyone – spiritualists, theosophists, artists, novelists – to interpret. This extreme relativity ...
... academics have conspired to bury or obscure those associations. These have been possible largely because, with their ... academic community to Bernal and to the Afrocentrist challenge, coming so far largely from a broadly liberal-leaning ...
... academics to rethink their position , for example the Classical historians and archaeologists who might have resisted the idea that Egypt and the Levant could have offered anything other than technical expertise to the culture of Greece ...
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