Ancient Egypt
State and Society
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 June 2014
- ISBN 9780199286195
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages388 pages
- Size 233x161x22 mm
- Weight 610 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 colour plates, 9 in-text maps, & 29 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
Alan B. Lloyd attempts to define, analyse, and evaluate the institutional and ideological systems which empowered and sustained one of the most successful civilizations of the ancient world for a period in excess of three and a half millennia.
MoreLong description:
In Ancient Egypt: State and Society, Alan B. Lloyd attempts to define, analyse, and evaluate the institutional and ideological systems which empowered and sustained one of the most successful civilizations of the ancient world for a period in excess of three and a half millennia.
The volume adopts the premise that all societies are the product of a continuous dialogue with their physical context - understood in the broadest sense - and that, in order to achieve a successful symbiosis with this context, they develop an interlocking set of systems, defined by historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists as culture. Culture, therefore, can be described as the sum total of the methods employed by a group of human beings to achieve some measure of control over their environment.
Covering the entirety of the civilization, and featuring a large number of up-to-date translations of original Egyptian texts, Ancient Egypt focuses on the main aspects of Egyptian culture which gave the society its particular character, and endeavours to establish what allowed the Egyptians to maintain that character for an extraordinary length of time, despite enduring cultural shock of many different kinds.
this is an essential work for anyone wanting to know more about how ancient communities on the Nile created one of the most successful and lasting civilisations of the ancient world.
Table of Contents:
List of colour plates
List of maps
List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chronological table
Introduction
The Historical Context
Genesis of a Society
Kingship
Violence and the State
Government of the Kingdom
The Dialogue with Environment
The Conceptualized Environment
Affirmation of a Concept
Dialogue and Transition
Bibliography
Index
