Ancient Egyptian Society Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches

Introduction

1. Investigating Ancient Egypt’s Societies: Past Approaches and New Directions

Danielle Candelora, Nadia Ben-Marzouk, and Kathlyn M. Cooney

2. Power and the Study of Ancient Egyptian Society

Nadia Ben-Marzouk

3. Hidden Violence: Reassessing Violence and Human Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt

Roselyn A. Campbell

4. Making the Past Present: The Use of Archaism and Festivals in the Transmission of Egyptian Royal Ideology

Jeffrey Newman

5. Divine Kingship and the Royal Ka

Jonathan Winnerman

6. Trade, Statehood, and Configurations of Power in Ancient Egypt (Early-Middle Bronze Age)

Juan Carlos Moreno García

7. The Social Pyramid and the Status of Craftspeople in Ancient Egypt

Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod

8. Ancient Egyptian Decorum: Demarcating and Presenting Social Action

John Baines

9. Co-regency in the 25th Dynasty: A Case Study of the Chapel of Osiris-Ptah Neb-ankh at Karnak

Essam Nagy

10. The Egyptianization of Egypt and Egyptology: Exploring Identity in Ancient Egypt

Danielle Candelora

11. Ancient Egyptian "Origins" and "Identity"

S. O. Y. Keita

12. Eight Medjay Walk into a Palace: Bureaucratic Categorization and Cultural Mistranslation of Peoples in Contact

Kate Liszka

13. The Value of Children in Ancient Egypt

Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod

14. Orientalizing the Ancient Egyptian Woman

Jordan Galczynski

15. The Ancient Egyptian Artist: A Non-Existing Category?

Dimitri Laboury and Alisée Devillers

16. Hellenistic Warfare and Egyptian Society

Christelle Fischer-Bovet

17. Revealing the Invisible Majority: "Hegemonic" Group Artefacts as Biography Containers of the "Underprivileged" Groups

Gianluca Miniaci

18. Reevaluating Social Histories: The Use of Ancient Egypt in Contemporary Art

Nicholas R. Brown

19. People of Nile and Sun, Wheat and Barley: Ancient Egyptian Society and the Agency of Place

Kathlyn M. Cooney

20. Shifting Boundaries, Conflicting Perspectives: (Re)establishing the Borders of Kemet Through Variable Social Identities

Danielle Candelora

21. Urban versus Village Society in Ancient Egypt: A New Perspective

Nadine Moeller

22. Reassessing the Value of Autobiographical Inscriptions from the First Intermediate Period and "Pessimistic Literature" for Understanding Egypt’s Social History

Ellen Morris

23. Othering the Alphabet: Rewriting the Social Context of a New Writing System in the Egyptian Expedition Community

Nadia Ben-Marzouk

24. Language Policy and the Administrative Framework of Early Islamic Egypt

Jennifer Cromwell

25. New Methods to Reconstruct the Social History of Food in Ancient Egypt: Case Studies from Nag ed Deir and Deir el Ballas

Amr Khalaf Shahat

26. Stop and Smell the Flowers: A Re-Assessment of the Ancient Egyptian "Blue Lotus"

Robyn Price

27. The Body of Egypt: How Harem Women Connected a King with his Elites

Kathlyn M. Cooney, Chloe Landis and Turandot Shayegan

Biography

Danielle Candelora is Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean History at SUNY Cortland and co-director of excavations at South Karnak. She received her PhD in Egyptology from UCLA. Her research focuses on immigration in ancient Egypt, the reception of foreigners, strategies of identity maintenance and advertisement.

Nadia Ben-Marzouk is Postdoctoral Fellow at Tel Aviv University and the University of Zurich. Her research explores craft production, producers, and modes of technological transmission in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant, Egypt, and east Mediterranean. She received her PhD from UCLA.

Kathlyn M. Cooney is Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Her research in 21st Dynasty coffin reuse focuses on the socio-economic and political aspects of funerary and burial practices in ancient Egypt.