Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches - Paperback

by Danielle Candelora (Editor), Nadia Ben-Marzouk (Editor), Kathlyn M. Cooney (Editor)

This volume challenges assumptions about-and highlights new approaches to-the study of ancient Egyptian society by tackling various thematic social issues through structured individual case studies.

The reader will be presented with questions about the relevance of the past in the present. The chapters encourage an understanding of Egypt in its own terms through the lens of power, people, and place, offering a more nuanced understanding of the way Egyptian society was organized and illustrating the benefits of new approaches to topics in need of a critical re-examination. By re-evaluating traditional, long-held beliefs about a monolithic, unchanging ancient Egyptian society, this volume writes a new narrative-one unchecked assumption at a time.

Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches is intended for anyone studying ancient Egypt or ancient societies more broadly, including undergraduate and graduate students, Egyptologists, and scholars in adjacent fields.

Author Biography

Danielle Candelora is Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean History at SUNY Cortland and co-director of excavations at South Karnak. She received her PhD in Egyptology from UCLA. Her research focuses on immigration in ancient Egypt, the reception of foreigners, strategies of identity maintenance and advertisement.

Nadia Ben-Marzouk is Postdoctoral Fellow at Tel Aviv University and the University of Zurich. Her research explores craft production, producers, and modes of technological transmission in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant, Egypt, and east Mediterranean. She received her PhD from UCLA.

Kathlyn M. Cooney is Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Her research in 21st Dynasty coffin reuse focuses on the socio-economic and political aspects of funerary and burial practices in ancient Egypt.