Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-957799-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 645 g

A generously illustrated selection of John Baines's influential writings on two core areas of ancient Egyptian civilization: the role of writing, which was very different in antiquity from what is familiar in the modern world, and the importance of visual culture. These questions are explored through a number of case studies. The volume assembles articles that were scattered in publications in a variety of disciplines, making available key contributions on core problems of theory, comparison, and analysis in the study of many civilizations and offering important points of departure for further research. Three wholly new essays are included, and the overall approach is an interdisciplinary one, synthesizing insights from archaeology, anthropology, and art history as well as Egyptology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baines, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- I. Prologue

- 1: Visual, written, decorum

- II. Written culture

- 2: Literacy and ancient Egyptian society

- 3: Four notes on literacy

- 4: Literacy, social organization and the archaeological record: the case of early Egypt

- 5: Writing and society in early Egypt

- 6: Orality and literacy

- 7: Ancient Egyptian concepts and uses of the past: third to second millennium evidence

- III. Visual culture

- 8: Theories and universals of representation: Heinrich Schafer and Egyptian art

- 9: Schafer's mottoes and the understanding of representation

- 10: Colour terminology and colour classification: ancient Egyptian colour terminology and polychromy

- 11: Stone and other materials: usages and values

- 12: Communication and display: the integration of early Egyptian art and writing

- 13: On the status and purposes of ancient Egyptian art

Über Autor(innen)

John Baines is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford.