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Dancing for Hathor - Women in Ancient Egypt (Hardcover): Carolyn Graves-Brown Dancing for Hathor - Women in Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
Carolyn Graves-Brown
R1,544 Discovery Miles 15 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The fragmentary evidence allows us only tantalising glimpses of the sophisticated and complex society of the ancient Egyptians, but the Greek historian Herodotus believed that the Egyptians had 'reversed the ordinary practices of mankind' in treating their women better than any of the other civilizations of the ancient world . Carolyn Graves-Brown draws on funerary remains, tomb paintings, architecture and textual evidence to explore all aspects of women in Egypt from goddesses and queens to women as the 'vessels of creation'. Perhaps surprisingly the most common career for women, after housewife and mother, was the priesthood, where women served deities, notably Hathor, with music and dance. Many would come to the temples of Hathor to have their dreams interpreted, or to seek divine inspiration. This is a wide ranging and revealing account told with authority and verve. >

Egyptology in the Present - Experiential and Experimental Methods in Archaeology (Hardcover): Carolyn Graves-Brown Egyptology in the Present - Experiential and Experimental Methods in Archaeology (Hardcover)
Carolyn Graves-Brown
R1,926 Discovery Miles 19 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume builds bridges between usually separate social groups, between different methodologies and even between disciplines. The experimental method is privileged in academic institutions and thus perhaps is subject to clear definitions. It tends to be associated with the scientific and technological. In opposition, the experiential is more rarely defined and is usually associated with schoolchildren, museums and heritage centres; it is often criticised for being unscientific. The introductory chapter of this volume examines the development of these traditionally-assumed differences, giving for the first time a critical and careful definition of the experiential in relation to the experimental. The two are seen as points on a continuum with much common ground. This claim is borne out by succeeding chapters, which cover such topics as textiles, woodworking and stoneworking. The volume, however, is important not only for Egyptology but for archaeological method more generally. It illuminates the pioneering of individuals who founded modern archaeological practice.

Daemons and Spirits in Ancient Egypt (Paperback): Carolyn Graves-Brown Daemons and Spirits in Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
Carolyn Graves-Brown
R1,102 R1,004 Discovery Miles 10 040 Save R98 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known 'spirit' entities of ancient Egypt -daemons, the mysterious and often fantastical creatures of the Egyptian 'Otherworld' - and the closely related spirits of the dead, which together conjure the excitement of all things otherworldly. Daemons and spirits are generally defined in Egyptology as creatures not of this world, which do not have their own cult centre, and both groups are frequently listed together in protective spells. This volume explores the general nature of daemons and spirits in ancient Egypt and discusses a selection in more detail: it uses artefacts from Wales's important collection of Egyptian objects at the Egypt Centre at Swansea University, in which are to be found a dwarf daemon with sticking out tongue; several guardian daemons of the Otherworld; creatures who are part snake and part feline; spirits of deceased humans; and a Greek satyr Silenus, companion to the wine god Dionysus.

Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt - Don Your Wig for a Joyful Hour (Hardcover): Carolyn Graves-Brown Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt - Don Your Wig for a Joyful Hour (Hardcover)
Carolyn Graves-Brown
R1,739 Discovery Miles 17 390 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume offers new research on an essential but often controversial aspect of life in Dynastic Egypt. Its originality lies in combining research which uses Egyptologys traditional strengths, philological and iconographic, with reflections on material culture and on the discipline of Egyptology itself. The authors are internationally-recognised authorities in their fields.

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