Lynn Meskell
Auteur de Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt
A propos de l'auteur
Lynn Meskell is shirley R. and Leonard W. Ely, Jr. Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University, A.D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University, and Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Œuvres de Lynn Meskell
Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (1998) — Directeur de publication — 34 exemplaires
Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt: Material Biographies Past and Present (Materializing Culture) (2004) 20 exemplaires
Embedding Ethics: Shifting Boundaries of the Anthropological Profession (Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series) (2005) 8 exemplaires
Journal of Social Archaeology Vol. 2 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Archaeologies of Social Life 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1997) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record (Regendering the Past) (1999) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1967-03-05
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Études
- Cambridge University (PhD, 1997, Archaeology)
University of Sydney (BA, 1994) - Professions
- archaeologist
anthropologist - Organisations
- Stanford University
Columbia University
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Australian Academy of the Humanities
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 246
- Popularité
- #92,613
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 48
- Langues
- 1
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Structured according to the cycles of life, the book relies on categories that the ancient Egyptians themselves used to make sense of their lives. Lynn Meskell gracefully sifts the evidence to reveal Egyptian domestic arrangements, social and family dynamics, sexuality, emotional experience, and attitudes toward the cadences of human life. She discusses how the Egyptians of the New Kingdom constituted and experienced self, kinship, life stages, reproduction, and social organization. And she examines their creation of communities and the material conditions in which they lived. Also included is neglected information on the formation of locality and the construction of gender and sexual identity and new evidence from the mortuary record, including important new data on the burial of children. Throughout, Meskell is careful to highlight differences among ancient Egyptians--the ways, for instance, that ethnicity, marital status, age, gender, and occupation patterned their experiences.… (plus d'informations)