Research Catalog

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Description

1. ix, 361 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 27 cm

Summary

1. "What was life like for ordinary people who lived in Roman Egypt? In this volume, Anna Lucille Boozer reconstructs and examines the everyday lives of non-elite individuals. It is the first book to bring a "life course" approach to the study of Roman Egypt and Egyptology more generally. Based on evidence drawn from objects, portraits, and letters, she focuses on the quotidian details that were most meaningful to those who lived during the centuries of Roman occupation. Boozer explores these individuals through each phase of the life cycle - from conception, childbirth, childhood, and youth, to adulthood and old age - and focuses on essential themes such as religion, health, disability, death, and the afterlife. Illuminating the lives of people forgotten by most historians, her richly illustrated volume also shows how ordinary people experienced and enacted social and cultural change"--

Subject

1. 332 B.C.-640 A.D
2. Social archaeology > Egypt
3. Civilization
4. Manners and customs
5. Social archaeology
6. Social conditions
7. Egypt > History > 30 B.C.-640 A.D
8. Egypt > Civilization > 332 B.C.-638 A.D
9. Egypt > Social life and customs
10. Egypt > Social conditions
11. Egypt

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Homelife -- Settings and communities -- Conception, birth, and childhood -- Adulthood -- Making the home -- Caring for the body and constructing difference -- Religion, ritual, and magic -- Health, disability, and old age -- Death and the afterlife -- Homelife in Roman Egypt and beyond.

Call number

1. JFF 22-510

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Boozer, Anna Lucille, 1977- author.

Title

1. At home in Roman Egypt : a social archaeology / Anna Lucille Boozer, Baruch College, CUNY.

Publisher

1. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Copyright date

1. ©2021

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 332 B.C.-640 A.D.

Other form:

1. Online version: Boozer, Anna Lucille, 1977- At home in Roman Egypt Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781108914543 (DLC) 2021012292

LCCN

1. 2021012291

Other standard identifier

1. 17315763

ISBN

1. 9781108830928 hardcover
2. 1108830927 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFF 22-510