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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... population are reduced to a singular- ity . This serves as a great convenience to all , including ourselves when looking at ancient Egypt . In treating them as a bloc we can say ' the ancient Egyptians did this ' , or we can move to a ...
... population to population the norms themselves vary , whether they concern body height or willingness to die in a cause , and within the same population some degree of variation is to be expected over time and as circumstances change ...
... populations whose lives would be constantly documented , and ways and means of measuring their daily actions and changes of mood and state of health that were not crudely simplistic and took into account that dark submerged current of ...
... population numbers increase so that the levels of exploita- tion also rise in turn ; the picking on weaker neighbours , especially when , from the ashes of war , societies are renewed . But underlying them all is perversity itself , the ...
... populations whose societies serve as the playing - field on which moods and ideas , opportunities and reactions to external ... population as a whole . In this case perhaps a long stability was moving towards inertia and , in a reaction ...
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 |