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Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt shifts the focus of gender
studies in Egyptology to social phenomena rarely addressed through
the lens of gender - war and violence, exploring the complex
intersections of violence and gender in ancient Egypt. Building on
current discussions in philosophy, anthropology, and sociology, and
on analysis of relevant historic texts, iconography, and
archaeological remains by looking at possible gender patterns
behind evidence of trauma, the book bridges the gap between modern
understandings of gendered violence and its functioning in ancient
Egypt. Areas explored include the following: differences in
gendered aggression and violent acts between people and deities;
sexual violence; the taking of men, women, and children as
prisoners of war; and feminization of enemies. By examining ancient
Egyptian texts and images with evidence for violence from different
periods and contexts - private tombs, divine temples, royal stelae,
papyri, and ostraca, ranging over 3,000 years of cultural history -
Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt highlights the complex
intersection between gender and violence in ancient Egyptian
culture. The book will appeal to scholars and students working in
Egyptology, archaeology, history, anthropology, sociology, and
gender studies.
Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt shifts the focus of gender
studies in Egyptology to social phenomena rarely addressed through
the lens of gender - war and violence, exploring the complex
intersections of violence and gender in ancient Egypt. Building on
current discussions in philosophy, anthropology, and sociology, and
on analysis of relevant historic texts, iconography, and
archaeological remains by looking at possible gender patterns
behind evidence of trauma, the book bridges the gap between modern
understandings of gendered violence and its functioning in ancient
Egypt. Areas explored include the following: differences in
gendered aggression and violent acts between people and deities;
sexual violence; the taking of men, women, and children as
prisoners of war; and feminization of enemies. By examining ancient
Egyptian texts and images with evidence for violence from different
periods and contexts - private tombs, divine temples, royal stelae,
papyri, and ostraca, ranging over 3,000 years of cultural history -
Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt highlights the complex
intersection between gender and violence in ancient Egyptian
culture. The book will appeal to scholars and students working in
Egyptology, archaeology, history, anthropology, sociology, and
gender studies.
This book explores the role of material culture in the formation of
corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past societies
and thus contributes to the cultural relativization of bodily
aesthetics and related gender norms. The volume does not explore
beauty for the sake of beauty, but extensively explores how it
serves to form and keep gender norms in place. The concept of
beauty has been a topic of interest for some time, yet it is only
in recent times that archaeologists have begun to approach beauty
as a culturally contingent and socially constructed phenomenon.
Although archaeologists and ancient historians extensively dealt
with gender, they dealt less with it in relation to beauty. The
contributions in this volume deal with different intersections of
gender and corporeal aesthetics by turning to rich archaeological,
textual and iconographic data from ancient Sumer, Aegean Bronze
Age, ancient Egypt, ancient Athens, Roman provinces, the Viking
world and the Qajar Iran. Beauty thus moves away from a curiosity
and surface of the body to an analytic concept for a better
understanding of past and present societies.
Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs deals with ancient
Egyptian concept of collective identity, various groups which
inhabited the Egyptian Nile Valley and different approaches to
ethnic identity in the last two hundred years of Egyptology. The
aim is to present the dynamic processes of ethnogenesis of the
inhabitants of the land of the pharaohs, and to place various
approaches to ethnic identity in their broader scholarly and
historical context. The dominant approach to ethnic identity in
ancient Egypt is still based on culture historical method. This and
other theoretically better framed approaches (e.g. instrumentalist
approach, habitus, postcolonial approach, ethnogenesis,
intersectionality) are discussed using numerous case studies from
the 3rd millennium to the 1st century BC. Finally, this Element
deals with recent impact of third science revolution on
archaeological research on ethnic identity in ancient Egypt.
Uros Matic and Bo Jensen have brought together a team of both young
and senior researches from many different countries in this first
volume that aims to explore the complex intersection between
archaeology, gender and violence. Papers range from theoretical
discussions on previous approaches to gender and violence and the
ethical necessity to address these questions today, to case studies
dealing on gender and violence from prehistoric to early medieval
Europe, but also including studies on ancient Egypt, Persia and
Peru. The contributors deal both with representations of violence
and its gendered background in images and text, and with
bioarchaeological evidence for violence and trauma with a gendered
background. The volume is rich both in examples and approaches and
includes opening and closing chapters by senior scholars in the
field assessing the current state of work and addressing the
scholarship to continue on the line of this volume.
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