This book draws on ancient Egyptian inscriptions in order to
theorize the relationship between accounting and order. It focuses
especially on the performative power of accounting in producing and
sustaining order in society. It explores how accounting intervened
in various domains of the ancient Egyptian world: the cosmos; life
on earth (offerings to the gods; taxation; transportation;
redistribution for palace dependants; mining activities; work
organization; baking and brewing; private estates and the
household; and private transactions in semi-barter exchange); and
the cult of the dead. The book emphasizes several possibilities
through which accounting can be theorized over and above strands of
theorizing that have already been explored in detail previously.
These additional possibilities theorize accounting as a
performative ritual; myth; a sign system; a signifier; a time
ordering device; a spatial ordering device; violence; and as an
archive and a cultural memory. Each of these themes are summarized
with further suggestions as to how theorizing might be pursued in
future research in the final chapter of the book. This book is of
particular relevance to all accounting students and researchers
concerned with theorize accounting and also with the relevance of
history to the project of contemporary theorizing of accounting.
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