Personal identity and social power in new kingdom and Coptic Egypt

Title
  1. Personal identity and social power in new kingdom and Coptic Egypt / Mary Horbury.
Published by
  1. Oxford : Archaeopress, 2009.
Author
  1. Horbury, Mary.

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Description
  1. 146 p. : col. ill.; 30 cm.
Summary
  1. "The continual question of why identities are imposed, why people are excluded and why the insupportable is supported forms the basis of this study. The author takes the apparently opposing contexts of New Kingdom and Coptic Egypt as prime case studies in which to look at how and why people manage to live under extreme centralisation and under its opposite, locally based power. Chapter One places the topic in its historiographical and theoretical setting. Chapter Two looks at statements of self emanating from the centre of power, and assesses their impact. Letters in Middle/Late Egyptian from royal and non-royal contexts are discussed. In Chapter Three the author contrasts the material from the preceding chapter with evidence from New Kingdom Memphis. Chapter Four contrasts the New Kingdom world, with its superficially centralized and strong state, with that of the Coptic period. Chapter Five assesses how far beliefs expressed in textual sources were reflected in the built environment."--Publisher's website.
Series statement
  1. BAR international series ; 2031
Uniform title
  1. BAR international series ; 2031.
Subject
  1. 1570-1320 B.C
  2. Geschichte 1552 v. Chr.-1070 v. Chr
  3. Geschichte 300-900
  4. Coptic monasticism and religious orders > Egypt
  5. Coptic monasticism and religious orders
  6. Historiography
  7. Gesellschaft
  8. Gruppenidentität
  9. Kopten
  10. Egypten > historia
  11. Historiografi
  12. Kopter
  13. Andliga ordnar
  14. Identitet
  15. Egypt > History > Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1570-1320 B.C
  16. Egypt > Historiography
  17. Egypt
  18. Ägypten Altertum
  19. Ägypten
  20. Kopten
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-141).