Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt - Archaeology and Anthropology in Dialogue

List of contents

Part I. Ancient Egyptian Kinship in Context: 1. Introduction: ancient Egyptian kinship between relatedness and material agency; 2. Understanding the sources: dating, characterisation, contextualisation, and display; 3. Setting the terms: etic and emic approaches to ancient Egyptian relatedness; 4. Between the emic and the etic: kin groups in ancient Egypt; 5. Dynamising kin groups; Part II. On Koinographic Analysis: 6. The birth of a kin group: from filiation to group formation; 7. The summit of a developmental cycle: non-genealogical relatedness; 8. Displaying decline: survival strategies and marriage patterns; 9. Conclusions: the dynamism of the social fabric.

About the author

Leire Olabarria is a Lecturer in Egyptology at the department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology of the University of Birmingham.

Summary

This book uses theories from archaeology and sociocultural anthropology to approach kinship and marriage in ancient Egypt, mainly through the notions of kinship as a process and material agency. 'Kin group' is used as an analytical category to explore potential ways of expressing relatedness in ancient primary sources.

Product details

• Authors: Leire Olabarria, Leire (University of Birmingham) Olabarria, Leire (University of Oxford) Olabarria
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108498777
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49877-7
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology