'Being in Ancient Egypt'. Thoughts on Agency, Materiality and Cognition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781407305943)

Papers from a seminar held at the University of Copenhagen in September 2006. Contents: A New Look at the Conception of the Human Being in Ancient Egypt (John Gee); 2) Between Identity and Agency in Ancient Egyptian Ritual (Harold M. Hays); 3) Material Agency, Attribution and Experience of Agency in Ancient Egypt: The case of New Kingdom private temple statues (Annette Kjby); 4) Self-perception and Self-assertion in the Portrait of Senwosret III: New methods for reading a face ((Maya Mueller); 5) Taking Phenomenology to Heart: Some heuristic remarks on studying ancient Egyptian embodied experience (Rune Nyord); 6) Anger and Agency: The role of the emotions in Demotic and earlier narratives (John Tait); 7) Time and Space in Ancient Egypt: The importance of the creation of abstraction (David A. Warburton); Index of Egyptian and Greek words and expressions.

Author: Rune Nyord
ISBN-10: 1407305948
ISBN-13: 9781407305943
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 95
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 11.50h x 8.30w x 0.30d