Kemp, Ancient Egypt

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title: Ancient Egypt : Anatomy of a Civilization 2Nd Ed.
author: Kemp, Barry J.
publisher: Taylor & Francis Routledge
isbn10 | asin: 0415235502
print isbn13: 9780415235501
ebook isbn13: 9780203468821
language: English
subject Egypt--Civilization--To 332 B.C.
publication date: 2006
lcc: DT61.K44 2006eb
ddc: 932
subject: Egypt--Civilization--To 332 B.C.
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Ancient Egypt
This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Ancient Egypt seeks to identify what gave
ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics, ranging across material culture, the mindset of
its people, and social and economic factors. It identifies the ideas by which the Egyptians organized
their experience of the world and explains how they maintained a uniform style in their art and
architecture across three thousand years, whilst accommodating substantial changes in outlook. The
underlying aim is to relate ancient Egypt to the broader mainstream of our understanding of how all
human societies function. This comprehensive survey of Egyptian society and history transforms our
understanding of this remarkable civilization.
Ancient written documents often provide the essential information and these are used where necessary.
However, the book highlights the contribution that archaeology makes, seeking an integration of
sources. It uses numerous case studies, illustrating them with artwork expressly prepared for the book
from specialist sources.
This revised edition adds new chapters on who, in ethnic terms, the ancient Egyptians were, and on the
final ten centuries of ancient Egyptian civilization. Barry Kemp’s book is an indispensable text for all
students of ancient Egypt and for the general reader.
Barry Kemp is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge. He is the Field Director of the
Egypt Exploration Society’s excavations at El-Amarna.
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Ancient Egypt
ANATOMY OF A CIVILIZATION
Second edition
Barry J.Kemp
LONDON AND NEW YORK
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First published 2006
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007.
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© 2006 Barry J.Kemp
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any
form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,
including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system,
without permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Kemp, Barry J.
Ancient Egypt: anatomy of a civilization/Barry J.Kemp.—2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Egypt—Civilization—to 332 BC I Title
DT61.K44 2005
932—dc22 2005007843
ISBN 0-203-46882-1 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 10: 0-415-23549-9 (hbk)
ISBN 10: 0-415-23550-2 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 978-0-415-23549-5 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-0-415-23550-1 (pbk)
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Contents

Acknowledgements vii
List of abbreviations ix

Introduction 1

Part I Establishing identity 17

1 Who were the ancient Egyptians? 19
2 The intellectual foundations of the early state 60
3 The dynamics of culture 111

Part II The provider state 161

4 The bureaucratic mind 163
5 Model communities 193

Part III Intimations of our future 245

6 New Kingdom Egypt:the mature state 247
7 The birth of economic man 302
8 Moving on 336
Epilogue 387

Notes 389
Index 423
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Acknowledgements
I am indebted to the editorial staff at Routledge for urging on me a revised edition, and for patience in
waiting for me to complete it long after I should have. Jerry Rose has saved me from several errors and
inappropriate expressions in Chapter 1.
For illustrations thanks are due to the following for permission to reproduce photographs: Philipp von
Zabern: Plate 4; The Egypt Exploration Society: Plate 10.
The drawings for Figures 2, 20, 59 and 96 were made by B.Garfi.
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