Name: High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt (en Inglés)
Price: 60.00 USD
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Author: John Baines
ISBN: 9781781793626

portada High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Equinox Publishing

Autor

John Baines

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Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781781793626

High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt (en Inglés)

John Baines (Autor) · Equinox Publishing · Tapa Blanda

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This novel work uses case studies of both familiar and unfamiliar materials, expanding consideration of ancient Egyptian elite culture to encompass lived experience and exploitation of the natural environment.The opening chapter sets out the conceptual ground for the analyses that follow, arguing that the relatively ephemeral activities under investigation were centrally important to the actors. The first and largest study treats human organization of the landscape and its use to create and transmit elite meanings, especially through pictorial and encyclopaedic forms, and to mobilize emotional values. Next, a treatment of the planning of primarily third millennium settlements on the floodplain argues that Egypt offers a partly rural perspective that provides an alternative to the urban focus of many early civilizations but has parallels in elite culture in much of the world. The third study discusses how a single year's events were orchestrated to culminate in a celebratory hunt in which the king, his court, and high officials participated. The concluding chapter presents an initial synthesis of Egyptian treatments of elite experience, drawing in particular upon additional evidence from literary texts and attitudes to travel. Throughout the book, aesthetics and the cultivation of pleasure and delight are emphasized as essential to ancient elite life.