Archaeologies of Social Life

Age, Sex, Class Etcetra in Ancient Egypt

Lynn Meskell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

1999
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-21298-0 (ISBN)

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Offers a perspective on everyday life in ancient Egypt. This book provides discussions of topics of debate, including the body, sexuality and issues of identity, and also addresses some of the traditional questions in archaeology about society and self, the individual and social relations.

Lynn Meskell is Assistant Professor in the department of Anthropology at Columbia University. She was previously a research fellow at New College, Oxford. Her publications include Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (1998) and a forthcoming volume with Dominic Montserrat, Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt.

List of Figures. Acknowledgements.

Prologue.

1. Individuals, Selves and Bodies.

2. Feminisms, Gender Trouble and Sexuality.

3. Body and Soul in the Archaeology of Egypt.

4. Mapping Age, Sex and Class at Deir el Medina.

5. Accessing Individuals at Deir el Medina.

Epilogue.

Notes.

References.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.8.1999
Reihe/Serie	Social Archaeology
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-631-21298-1 / 0631212981
ISBN-13	978-0-631-21298-0 / 9780631212980
Zustand	Neuware