Leire Olabarria (University of Birmingham)

Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt (eBook, PDF)

Archaeology and Anthropology in Dialogue

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Produktbeschreibung

In this interdisciplinary study, Leire Olabarria examines ancient Egyptian society through the notion of kinship. Drawing on methods from archaeology and sociocultural anthropology, she provides an emic characterisation of ancient kinship that relies on performative aspects of social interaction. Olabarria uses memorial stelae of the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom (ca.2150-1650 BCE) as her primary evidence. Contextualising these monuments within their social and physical landscapes, she proposes a dynamic way to explore kin groups through sources that have been considered static. The volume offers three case studies of kin groups at the beginning, peak, and decline of their developmental cycles respectively. They demonstrate how ancient Egyptian evidence can be used for cross-cultural comparison of key anthropological topics, such as group formation, patronage, and rites of passage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2020
• ISBN-13: 9781108598835
• Artikelnr.: 70911050

Autorenporträt

Leire Olabarria is a Lecturer in Egyptology at the department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology of the University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Ancient Egyptian Kinship in Context: 1. Introduction: ancient
Egyptian kinship between relatedness and material agency; 2. Understanding
the sources: dating, characterisation, contextualisation, and display; 3.
Setting the terms: etic and emic approaches to ancient Egyptian
relatedness; 4. Between the emic and the etic: kin groups in ancient Egypt;
5. Dynamising kin groups; Part II. On Koinographic Analysis: 6. The birth
of a kin group: from filiation to group formation; 7. The summit of a
developmental cycle: non-genealogical relatedness; 8. Displaying decline:
survival strategies and marriage patterns; 9. Conclusions: the dynamism of
the social fabric.