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Egypt and the Egyptians

ISBN: 9780521616898 | 0521616891
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 4/30/2007

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Surveying more than three thousand years of Egyptian civilization, Egypt and the Egyptians offers a comprehensive introduction to this most rich and complex of early societies. This second edition is fully revised and updated, including new material on the role of women and Egypt's transition to an agricultural society.
A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to over three thousand years of ancient Egyptian civilization.
Preface
1. An Egyptian revival
2. The river, valley and desert
3. A chronology and history of Egypt
4. Cities, towns and villages
5. The government and the governed
6. Religion and religious practices
7. Society and its expectations... MORE
8. Language and writing
9. Homes for the people, the pharaoh, and the gods
10. The quest for eternity
11. Egyptian art: craftsmen, techniques and conventions
12. Cultural death or transformations of a civilization?
Douglas J. Brewer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and Director of the Spurlock Museum Emily Teeter is an Egyptologist and Research Associate at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago


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