The Social and Cultural Order of Ancient Egypt: An Ethnographic and Regional Analysis

by Steen Bergendorff

Overview

From the Narmer palette to funerary preparations to pyramids, Steen Bergendorff draws on anthropological insights to provide new interpretations of accepted truths about Ancient Egypt. Bergendorff traces societal reproductive patterns in Ancient Egypt and the regional trade network that stretched from the Levant and Mesopotamia in the west and Nubia and Africa to the south in order to illustrate Ancient Egyptian culture anew. This book is recommended for students and scholars of archaeology, anthropology, Egyptology, and history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781793610041
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	12/04/2019
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	6.33(w) x 9.01(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Steen Bergendorff is associate professor emeritus in the Department of Social Science and Business at Roskilde University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: A regional perspective on Ancient Egypt

Chapter 2: Gold and social organization

Chapter 3: Ancient Egyptian cosmology

Chapter 4: Ancient Egyptian concept of personhood – Living in two lands

Chapter 5: Ancient practices

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Why did the pharaonic society flourish in one of the harshest environments in the world? In this stimulating book, inspired by a solid anthropological background, Steen Bergendorff provides an original and vibrant narrative in which gold appears as a crucial move in the emergence of the Egyptian civilization.

Juan Carlos Moreno García

All that glitters is not gold!” Not in the perspective of Steen Bergendorff. In The Social and Cultural Order of Ancient Egypt, Bergendorff starts from gold control to explain the hegemony of the ruling class and the formation of the social and cultural mindset of ancient Egyptians. Bergendorff successfully evokes a different Egypt, an Egypt seen through the eyes of an anthropologist, an Egypt untangled from its local perspective and presented from a more global view.

Gianluca Miniaci