Women, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt

The Theban Case Study

Jean Li (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

186 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-12542-1 (ISBN)

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Women, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt clarifies the role of women in Egyptian society during the first millennium BCE, allowing for more nuanced discussions of women in the Third Intermediate Period. It is an intensive study of a corpus that is both geographically and temporally localized around the city of Thebes, which was the cultural and religious centre of Egypt during this period and home to a major national necropolis. Unlike past studies which have relied heavily on literary evidence, Li presents a refreshing material culture-based analysis of identity construction in elite female burial practices. This close examination of the archaeology of women’s burial presents an opportunity to investigate the social, professional and individual identities of women beyond the normative portrayals of the subordinate wife, mother and daughter.

Taking a methodological and material culture-based approach which adds new dimensions to scholarly and popular understandings of ancient Egyptian women, this fascinating and important study will aid scholars of Egyptian history and archaeology, and anyone with an interest in women and gender in the ancient world.

Jean Li is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Ryerson University, Canada. Her research focuses on Egyptian art and archaeology in the first millennium BCE, and she is especially interested in using recent anthropological and archaeological theories to study ancient cultural products.

Introduction

Chapter One: Tradition, Innovation and a Search for Egyptian Identity in the Third Intermediate Period

Chapter Two: Rank, Status and Axes of Identity

Chapter Three: Materiality, Memory and the Mortuary Landscape of Thebes

Chapter Four: The Symbolic Economy of Mortuary Practices

Conclusion: Women, Gender and Status in Thebes of the 8th-6th Centuries BCE

Erscheinungsdatum	28.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Egyptology
Zusatzinfo	35 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-138-12542-3 / 1138125423
ISBN-13	978-1-138-12542-1 / 9781138125421
Zustand	Neuware