| The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt: Voices, Images, and Objects of Material Producers 2000-1550 BC Contributor(s): Miniaci, Gianluca (Editor), Moreno Garcia, Juan Carlos (Editor), Quirke, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9088905231 ISBN-13: 9789088905230 Publisher: Sidestone Press OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Ancient - Egypt |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.9" W x 9.9" (1.55 lbs) 275 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - North Africa - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book provides an innovative analysis of the conditions of ancient Egyptian craftsmanship in the light of the archaeology of production, linguistic analysis, visual representation and ethnographic research. During the past decades, the "imaginative" figure of ancient Egyptian material producers has moved from "workers" to "artisans" and, most recently, to "artists." In a search for a fuller understanding of the pragmatics of material production in past societies, and moving away from a series of modern preconceptions, this volume aims to analyze the mechanisms of material production in Egypt during the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BC); to approach the profile of ancient Egyptian craftsmen through their own words, images, and artifacts; and to trace possible modes of circulation of ideas among craftsmen in material production. |
Contributor Bio(s): Moreno Garcia, Juan Carlos: - Dr. Juan Carlos Moreno García (PhD in Egyptology, 1995) is a CNRS senior researcher at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, as well as lecturer on social and economic history of ancient Egypt at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He has published extensively on the administration, socio-economic history, and landscape organization of ancient Egypt, usually in a comparative perspective with other civilizations of the ancient world, and has organized several conferences on these topics. Recent publications include Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East, 1300-500 BC (2016), L'Égypte des pharaons. De Narmer à Dioclétien (3150 av. J.-C.-284 apr. J.-C.) (2016) and Ancient Egyptian Administration (2013). He is also chief editor of The Journal of Egyptian History (Brill) and area editor ("economy") of the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.Miniaci, Gianluca: - "Dr. Gianluca Miniaci is Senior Researcher in Egyptology at the University of Pisa, Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL - London, and Chercheur associé at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. He has held research fellowships at the British Museum, Petrie Museum, University of Salerno, and Musée du Louvre. His main publications include Rishi Coffins and the Funerary Culture of Second Intermediate Period Egypt (2011); Le lettere ai morti nell'antico Egitto (2014) and, together with Stephen Quirke and Marilina Betrò, Company of Images: Modelling the Imaginary World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2017). He is currently editor-in-chief of the international series "Middle Kingdom Studies", GHP-London and co-director, together with Richard Bussmann and Aly el-Bakry, of the archaeological mission at Zawyet Sultan (Menya, Egypt)."Quirke, Stephen: - "Stephen Quirke is Professor of Egyptology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He was previously curator of hieratic manuscripts at the British Museum, and curator at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL. His publications include Hidden Hands: Egyptian workforces in Petrie excavation archives, 1880-1924 (2010), Going out in Daylight: the Egyptian Book of the Dead - translation, sources, meanings (2013), Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt (2014), Birth tusks: the armoury of health in context (2016)."Stauder, Andreas: - Andréas Stauder is Professor of Egyptology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études/PSL Research University in Paris. He was previously a researcher with the Swiss National Science Foundation and the University of Basel, and a post-doctoral fellow at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He directs the project "Scripta-PSL. History and Practices of Writing" (2017-) and is a scientific co-editor of the section "Language" for the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE). He has previously co-directed the module "Materiality and Semantics of Writing" in the National Centre of Competence in Research "eikones" (2013-2017, SNSF and University of Basel) and directed the SNSF-project "The Old Egyptian Verb. Functions in text" (2012-2016). He is the author of The Earlier Egyptian Passive. Voice and Perspective (2014) and Linguistic Dating of Middle Egyptian Literary Texts (2013). |