Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a CivilizationPsychology Press, 1991 - 356 pages From an archaeological perspective, and drawing on new excavations, Kemp (Egyptology, Cambridge) explores ways in which Egypt of about 3000-1000 BC prefigures our own culture. He discusses what he sees as major shaping forces of the civilization, such as political myth and ideology, bureaucracy, the quest for food and work, charismatic rule, the political and economic constraints on daily life, and the interplay between change and stability through the centuries. Contains many plans of buildings and towns, and redrawings of carvings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |
Table des matières
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page | 1 |
The intellectual foundations of the early state | 19 |
The dynamics of culture | 64 |
The bureaucratic mind | 111 |
Model communities | 137 |
the mature state | 183 |
The birth of economic man | 232 |
the city of ElAmarna | 261 |
Onwards from the Bronze Age | 318 |
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18th Dynasty Abydos administration Akhenaten Amarna Amenhetep Amun ancient Egypt ancient Egyptian archaeology architecture Aten B.J. Kemp basic building built Cairo carved cemetery centre Chapter court cult culture deben decorated Deir el-Medina Delta desert divine Dynastic Period Early Dynastic economic el-Amarna Elephantine enclosure wall evidence example excavated festival Figure formal Giza grain granary Hierakonpolis hieroglyphs Horus houses ideology Kahun Karnak king king's kingship land later loaves London MDAIK Memphis Menkaura metres Middle Kingdom Mirgissa modern mortuary temple mud brick myth Nagada Nile Nubia officials Old Kingdom palace Papyrus Pharaoh Plate pottery Predynastic priests Rameses Rameses II rations reign royal scenes scribe Sed-festival Semna Senusret Senusret III Seth society sources statues Step Pyramid stone style symbolic tent shrine texts Thebes town tradition Tuthmosis Tuthmosis III Upper Egypt Uronarti Valley village W.M.F. Petrie