Histories of Egyptology (eBook, ePUB)

Interdisciplinary Measures
Redaktion: Carruthers, William

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Histories of Egyptology are increasingly of interest: to Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, and others. Yet, particularly as Egypt undergoes a contested process of political redefinition, how do we write these histories, and what (or who) are they for? This volume addresses a variety of important themes, the historical involvement of Egyptology with the political sphere, the manner in which the discipline stakes out its professional territory, the ways in which practitioners represent Egyptological knowledge, and the relationship of this knowledge to the public sphere. Histories of Egyptology provides the basis to understand how Egyptologists constructed their discipline. Yet the volume also demonstrates how they construct ancient Egypt, and how that construction interacts with much wider concerns: of society, and of the making of the modern world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135014568
• Artikelnr.: 41208853

Autorenporträt

William Carruthers is a Max Weber postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In 2014, he graduated with a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, and prior to that trained and worked as an archaeologist.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Thinking about Histories of Egyptology William Carruthers
Part I: The Creation and Isolation of an Academic Discipline 2. The Object
of Study: Egyptology, Archaeology, and Anthropology at Oxford, 1860-1960
Alice Stevenson 3. The Anglo-Saxon Branch of the Berlin School: The
Interwar Correspondence of Adolf Erman and Alan Gardiner and the Loss of
the German Concession at Amarna Thomas Gertzen 4. The Cursed Discipline?
The Peculiarities of Egyptology at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Juan Carlos Moreno García 5. Interdisciplinary Measures: Beyond
Disciplinary Histories of Egyptology David Gange Part II: Knowledge in the
Making 6. Beyond Travelers' Accounts and Reproductions: Unpublished
Nineteenth-Century Works as Histories of Egyptology Andrew Bednarski 7.
Studies in Esoteric Syntax: The Enigmatic Friendship of Aleister Crowley
and Battiscombe Gunn Steve Vinson and Janet Gunn 8. Margaret Alice Murray
and Archaeological Training in the Classroom: Preparing "Petrie's Pups"
Kathleen L. Sheppard 9. Discussing Knowledge in the Making Christina Riggs
Part III: Colonial Mediations, Postcolonial Responses 10. On Archaeological
Labor in Modern Egypt Wendy Doyon 11. Remembering and Forgetting
Tutankhamun: Imperial and National Rhythms of Archaeology, 1922-1972
Donald M. Reid 12. The State of the Archive: Manipulating Memory in Modern
Egypt and the Writing of Egyptological Histories Hussein Omar 13. Histories
of Egyptology in Egypt: Some Thoughts Marwa Elshakry Part IV: Representing
Knowledge 14. Thomas "Mummy" Pettigrew and the Study of Egypt in Early
Nineteenth-Century Britain Gabriel Moshenska 15. Repeating Death: The High
Priest Character in Mummy Horror Films Jasmine Day 16. What's in a Face?
Mummy Portrait Panels and Identity in Museum Display Debbie Challis 17.
Legacies of Engagement: The Multiple Manifestations of Ancient Egypt in
Public Discourse Stephanie Moser Postscript 18. The Old and New Egyptian
Museums: Between Imperialists, Nationalists, and Tourists Mohamed Elshahed