Material Culture and Identities in Egyptology

Towards a Better Understanding of Cultural Encounters and their Influence on Material Culture

by Bettina Bader

Book cover: Material Culture and Identities in Egyptology

Extent: 130 pages

Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

Subjects: Ancient Egypt, Cultural Studies

Series: Archaeology of Egypt, Sudan and the Levant

Series volume number: 3

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(March 2021)

ISBN: 9783700187981

Price: $95.00

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The book examines the connection between identity and material culture, which forms the backbone of archaeology. The assumed direct relationship between the things of daily life and the aspects of identity such as gender, age or ethnicity to name but a few is challenged under consideration of post-colonial theories and critically applied to a case study in ancient Egypt (Tell el-Dab’a), which provides exclusively material culture for interpretation. Besides a detailed introduction to the formation and current use of aspects of identity and culture concepts with special regard to archaeology, definitions (such as ‘entanglement’ and ‘appropriation’) and a placement of fusions of material culture from various areas in the theoretical framework are proposed.

  • By (author) Bettina Bader