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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... kind : ' Egypt in the New Kingdom expanded her empire ' . The process extends beyond convenience . Extreme generalizing feeds our natural taste for story - telling and gossip which is helped along if we can also identify named leaders ...
... kind of lesser system , and perhaps more influential in the past than now . Institutions are another kind , and ancient Egypt possessed many , principally the court , the many temples and , in the later centuries , the army . As the ...
... kind of society , in this case one which replaced a single central government with local centres of power , so bringing about armed conflict . No matter how elegant our construction of how this manifested itself in the fine details of ...
... kind of safety net to limit the consequences , to the final chapter , in part because it serves as an introduction to the last thousand years of Egyptian history . In between are two chapters , 6 and 7 , which , drawing largely on ...
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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 |