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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... ancient Egyptians and the processes by which their culture and their state came into being . In essence it is a ... Egypt . Some will find the result idiosyncratic . But all should bear in mind the likelihood that survey and excavation in ...
... Egypt ' for the valley , and ' Lower Egypt ' for the delta . This is , however , something of an over - simplification . Upper Egypt has its own inter- nal division in the vicinity of Asyut . This is apparent partly from observing the ...
... ancient Egypt . It has sometimes been thought that organized society - civilization in Egypt and elsewhere arose from the need for collective effort to control rivers to allow agriculture to develop . In the case of ancient Egypt one ...
... Egypt is the Coptic church . Its language , no longer spoken but preserved in liturgy and in scriptural translations , is the language of ancient Egypt shorn of hieroglyphic writing . These three great infusions of outside culture ...
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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 |