Perspectives on materiality in ancient Egypt : agency, cultural reproduction and change /

Growing out of a colloquium organised in Sao Paulo in March 2016, here nine papers approach the potential of materiality in Ancient Egypt based on several case studies covering a wide range of topics such as Egyptian art, recent perspectives on sex and gender, hierarchies, and the materiality of tex...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: ¡Rika, Maynart (Editor), Velloza, Carolina (Editor), Lemos, Rennan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018.
Subjects:
To 1500
Material culture > Egypt > History > To 1500.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Antiquities.
Material culture.
Egypt > Antiquities.
Égypte > Antiquités.
Egypt.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Divine worship and action: representations of the Amarna Royal Family / Gisela Chapot
  • Children and Materiality in Ancient Egypt / Benjamin Hinson
  • Materiality and cultural reproduction in non-elite cemeteries / Rennan Lemos
  • The sap of life: materiality and sex in the divine birth legend of Hatshepsut and Amenhotep III / Uroš Matić
  • Texts, materiality and agency in Middle Kingdom literature / Érika Maynart
  • "All that glitters is not gold:" the symbolism and materiality of Egyptian funerary amulets / Carmen Muñoz Pérez
  • Materiality and history: some reflections / Marcelo Rede
  • The acting image and the materialisation of social realities / Carolina Velloza
  • Agency and representation of Nubians in Egyptian iconogaphy in the 18th Dynasty: ethnic strategies and negotiations / Fábio Amorim Vieira.

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