Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a CivilizationPsychology Press, 2006 - 437 pages Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, this second edition of Barry J. Kemp's popular text presents a compelling reassessment of what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics. Ranging across Ancient Egyptian material culture, social and economic experiences, and the mindset of its people, the book also includes two new chapters exploring the last ten centuries of Ancient Egyptian civilization and who, in ethnic terms, the ancients were. Fully illustrated, the book draws on both ancient written materials and decades of excavation evidence, transforming our understanding of this remarkable civilization. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed, Kemp's work is an indispensable text for all students of Ancient Egypt. |
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... culture , the mindset of its people , and social and economic factors . It identifies the ideas by which the Egyptians organized their experience of the world and explains how they maintained a uniform style in their art and ...
... culture 111 283 19 60 Part II The provider state 4 The bureaucratic mind 5 Model communities 161 163 193 Part III Intimations of our future 6 New Kingdom Egypt : the mature state 7 The birth of economic man 8 Moving on Epilogue Notes ...
... culture . Culture begins as a mental therapy to protect us from being overwhelmed by the information that our senses collect , and through it we make sense of the world . On the one hand , therefore , I am trying to be an objective ...
... culture was not destroyed by conquerors but from within . In the early centuries AD , enthusiastic Egyptian adherents of Christianity rejected altogether their cultural inheritance ( by that time a mix of the Pharaonic and the Greek ) ...
... culture has grown not to like this , although in practice we acknowledge it every day . In the scheme I have chosen , the first part , Chapters 1 to 3 , serves to introduce the ancient Egyptians and the processes by which their culture ...
Contents
Who were the ancient Egyptians? | 19 |
The intellectual foundations of the early state | 60 |
The dynamics of culture | 111 |
The provider state | 161 |
The bureaucratic mind | 163 |
Model communities | 193 |
Intimations of our future | 245 |