Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
440
Utgivningsdatum
2009-10-29
Förlag
OUP Oxford
Illustratör/Fotograf
49 black & white illustrations
Illustrationer
49 black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
231 x 155 x 33 mm
Vikt
726 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780199577996

Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt

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A generously illustrated collection of John Baines's influential writings on the role of writing and the importance of visual culture in ancient Egypt. Investigation of these key topics in a comparative study of early civilizations is pursued through a number of case studies, and characterized by a radically interdisciplinary approach.
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Jasmine Day, Journal of Archaeology Science Here is a rarity: a collection of essays selected annotated and updated not by an editor, but by their writer, with all the resultant advantages... John Baines does more than compile a series of related papers into a convenient single book.

Ilona Regulski, Bibliotheca Orientalis This well illustrated volume brings together some of John Baines's valuable studies...making better available key contributions on core problems of written and visual culture in ancient Egypt. The book is organized as a synthesis of excellent treated individual topics that offers numerous points of departure for further research.

Gordon Whittaker, Antiquity a handsome and well-balanced assessment of the nature and contexts of writing in, and the impact of writing on, Egyptian society and culture... the essays provide valuable glimpses into virtually all major aspects of writing in Egyptian culture down into the Graeco-Roman period... The volume as a whole, complemented by Baines incisive articles in the first two works, is compelling reading for all those interested in the transformations in the phenomenon of writing over a span of three millennia within a single culture.

Robyn A. Gillam, Chronique d'gypte a work that deserves to be seriously read and re-viewed.

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<br>John Baines is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford.<br>

Innehållsförteckning

I. PROLOGUE; 1. Visual, written, decorum; II. WRITTEN CULTURE; 2. Literacy and ancient Egyptian society; 3. Four notes on literacy; 4. Literacy, social organization and the archaeological record: the case of early Egypt; 5. Writing and society in early Egypt; 6. Orality and literacy; 7. Ancient Egyptian concepts and uses of the past: third to second millennium evidence; III. VISUAL CULTURE; 8. Theories and universals of representation: Heinrich Schafer and Egyptian art; 9. Schafer's mottoes and the understanding of representation; 10. Colour terminology and colour classification: ancient Egyptian colour terminology and polychromy; 11. Stone and other materials: usages and values; 12. Communication and display: the integration of early Egyptian art and writing; 13. On the status and purposes of ancient Egyptian art